by Veronica Szczygiel If each member of the Trinity had his own Facebook page, the Holy Spirit would have the least number of “friends.” This is a brute statement, perhaps, but it highlights a discomforting truth. Out of the three persons of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit does not garner nearly as much attention or [...]

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by Carolyn Woo May is the month of Mary, and memories come to mind about how much she has been a part of my life. These reminiscences are like going through a family album and sharing stories of those moments that jump out from the pages. In kindergarten in Hong Kong, I played Mary in [...]

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by Tony Magliano “This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors,” states a Pennsylvania grand jury report regarding the [...]

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by Patricia Zapor Without getting into specifics, a panel of bishops said April 22 that a comprehensive immigration bill introduced the week before is on the right track, though they alluded to some aspects they would like changed. In a teleconference about the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013, or S. [...]

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by Jamie Schombs We all know that life is beyond bad in developing countries, right? But how bad is it, really, and who is making a difference? I knew almost nothing about Belize, the country in Central America, when I left on March 17 to spend a week there with nine other faculty and administration members [...]

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by Father Robert Czok It was an ordinary day, but it was smack in the middle of an extraordinary time of the year, Wednesday of Holy Week. For many years during this time, as a parish priest, I had always been deeply into preparations and the actual celebrations for the various Holy Week ceremonies. This [...]

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by Carol Glatz After a musically proficient and polyglot Pope Benedict XVI, it came as a surprise to many that Pope Francis doesn’t sing or chant at Mass or speak foreign languages in public. From his first Mass as pope – his liturgy with the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel March 14 – [...]

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by Father Frank Mann The Tablet Forum is back in full swing and has found a new home! On May 10, at 7 p.m., at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village, (in the Hugh P. Kirwan Performing Arts Center), the ever-popular Tablet Forum will offer a riveting presentation that seeks to uplift the heart, inspire [...]

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by Father John P. Cush What a week it’s been! The excitement and anticipation had been building here in Rome. On Tuesday, March 12, I attended the Mass for the election for the Holy Father at St. Peter’s Basilica, celebrated by Angelo Cardinal Sodano. On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, several of us American priests [...]

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by Stephen Kent There is a great difference in how an institution is affected during the change of its leader, whether it be by events such as the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI or the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs. That difference is illustrated by the swirl of events surrounding the conclave for the [...]

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