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Adventure by Catholic terms: ‘You were made for greatness’
All afternoon I had been hunkered over my MacBook, perched above a frozen lake and watching the sun cast pink into the clouds. I was thinking about what lie dormant […]
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The welcome outreach of perinatal hospice
During the course of pregnancy, receiving an adverse prenatal diagnosis can be a tremendously jolting experience for parents. In severe cases, physicians may tell them that their unborn child has […]
The Sunday Gospel
If we are in the Lord, those who fight against us will not prevail
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 4:21-30 The Book of Jeremiah is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Regarded as one of the major Hebrew prophets because of the […]
The Human Condition
The full implications of our adoption by grace
It is an article of Catholic faith that, through the regenerating grace of baptism, we are made sons and daughters of God. What Jesus, is by nature, proclaimed by the […]
Perspective
One man’s meat
One of our girls gave me a book for Christmas, “One Man’s Meat,” by E.B. White. We agreed to start a little book club, just the two of us — […]
Bishop's Column: In Truth and Charity
World Youth Day in Panama
Our diocesan pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Panama was a beautiful journey of faith under the motherly mantle of Mary, whose response to God’s call was the theme of […]
The Sunday Gospel
Salvation, unfolding in Jesus, is the gift of God’s love
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 1:1-14, 4:14-21 The Book of Nehemiah furnishes the first reading for this weekend. At one time, in the Hebrew editions of the Bible, this […]
Perspective
Recovering intimacy in a lonely world
In the early 1990s, the famed mystery author P.D. James published “The Children of Men.” Set in the year 2021, it describes a dystopian world where the human race had […]
Perspective
Lay collaboration and episcopal authority
The Vatican is a hotbed of rumor, gossip and speculation at the best of times — and these times are not those times. The Roman atmosphere at the beginning of […]
Perspective
Our most primal fear
At Mass for Wednesday of the first week of the year, we read a text from Hebrews that describes our most basic and primal fear. Our inordinate fear of what people […]
Bishop's Column: In Truth and Charity
‘Let it be done to me according to your word:’ World Youth Day
The following is the homily given by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades to World Youth Day pilgrims in Panama City, Panama, on Jan. 20. We begin our World Youth Day pilgrimage […]
The Sunday Gospel
Mary shows us how to follow and trust the Lord
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time John 2:1-11 The Book of Isaiah furnishes this weekend’s first reading. When this third section of Isaiah was written, the Hebrew people had just emerged […]