I have found reflecting on some of the insights of author Flannery O’Connor very helpful in trying to understand the relationship between good stories and religious faith.
Author: Christine
Keeping the Commitment to Living Out the Faith
As the youngest and the only adopt¬ed child in an immigrant family, my primary years were spent experienc¬ing members of our household leaving the only place I used to call home. One by one I watched them leave for the United States.
A Special Message To All Mothers
“If at first you don’t succeed, try doing it the way your mother told you to in the beginning,” goes an anonymous quote.
Letters to the Editor Week of May 13, 2023
What Is a Mother?; Sister Francis Dominic; Diocesan Churches on TV; Churches in Movies; Facing God at Mass; What’s the Fascination with Latin Mass?
Obituaries, Week of May 13, 2023
Sister Anna May English, S.C.
Remembering Farrell’s Jimmy Houlihan
We always drank beer from stemmed glasses in Farrell’s Bar and Grill. We were college kids, hair creeping down our necks, and we would meet in the crowded, gleaming bar in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace to plan the evening or our lives.
Two Popes, Catholic & Coptic, Meet To Aid Middle Eastern Christianity
Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II visited the Vatican from May 9 to 14 and met with Pope Francis. The visit was the second time in 10 years that Pope Tawadros visited the Vatican; he did so in May 2013, when the two churches proclaimed May 10 as “Coptic-Catholic Friendship Day.”
Eucharistic Revival Playbook Offers Direction, Ideas For Parish Year
Parish leaders seeking guidance for the National Eucharistic Revival’s upcoming parish year now have a 24-page resource to assist their discernment. The “Leader’s Playbook,” released May 1, helps parishes answer the question “what are we being asked to do?” through four “invitations” for the Year of Parish Revival, which begins on the solemnity of Corpus Christi June 11.
‘Adoration Is Like Sunbathing — You Let The Sun Shine On You, As You Truly Are,’ Says Cardinal
Monthly adoration has become a new normal for pilgrims visiting St. Peter’s Square. For Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, who led a monthly Vatican outdoor Holy Hour May 9, adoration is a crucial hour of any day.
Baltimore Archdiocese Forms Commission To Investigate Church Connection To Slavery
In recent years, a growing awareness of injustice and calls for reform have led to a racial reckoning, with businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations and institutions across the country reassessing their own complicity with racism in its various forms.
