If the pastor had not stepped down, the church embezzlement might have continued indefinitely. But when Father Brian Lisowski, pastor of St. Bede the...
Parish life
Catholics need to lighten up and see the bright side of sometimes being the butt of jokes. It wouldn’t hurt to laugh at ourselves once in a...
Sean Reynolds cheerfully agreed to torpedo tired old thinking at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis last November. The symposium, dreamed up by...
We were nervous walking into the new parish for the first time. My husband and I settled our three children into a pew near the rear for a quick escape if we...
Having a child with special needs can test one’s faith in God and in the parish community. As a theologian Mary Beth Walsh of Maplewood, New Jersey had...
Steven Saitabau was one of 23 that were baptized in one Kenyan parish the first weekend of October 2008. Nine years old, he had lived half is life without a...
The immigration debate comes home to Catholic parishes She brought her children here from her country because she feared gangs would kill them. “I left...
Pumping up priesthood at the expense of lay ministry is no way to renew the church. The full, conscious, and active participation of laypeople in the liturgy...
The shortage of priests has made some places in the United States “mission territory,” drawing clergy the world over to a parish near you. One...
Parishes can’t always anticipate impending disaster, but there’s plenty they can do to prepare and protect themselves from the worst. Imagine...
