I think being Catholic affords me the opportunity to experience community at the deepest level, to influence others in the most radical way and to be influenced by others in the most radical way.
Arts and Culture
Fr. Robert Lauder is a philosophy professor at St. John’s University and the author of “Pope Francis’ Spirituality and Our Story” (Resurrection Press).
Technology and Faith Tell Story of Christ’s Tomb
The National Geographic Museum exhibit, “Tomb of Christ: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience,” serves as an immersive tour of the ancient church built on the site where Christ is believed to have been crucified and buried.
Mutual Care Is the Essence of Community
First in a series
A FEW YEARS ago in the parish at which I celebrate Sunday Eucharist, a few parishioners formed a committee to create programs to help make the parish more of a community. I admire their interest and commitment and I am surprised at how much success they have had.
There Is Nothing Like A Good Story
FOR THE PAST WEEK I have been thinking about the important role stories can play in our lives.
55th Friday Film Festival Schedule
Father Robert Lauder, a regular on NET-TV’s “Reel Faith,” and the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis, present the 55th Friday Film Festival on six Fridays at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, this spring.
Father Lauder’s Catholic Novel Series
Father Robert Lauder and the diocesan Office of Faith Formation, School of Evangelization, present a Catholic Novel Series on select Mondays this spring.
‘Signature Project’ at The Sheen Center
“The Signature Project,” a multi-sensory theatrical experience, is coming to The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, Greenwich Village, March 8-25.
A Sacral View of The World
Second in a series
SINCE WRITING last week’s column about Marilynne Robinson’s essay, “Wonders Never Cease: Integrity and the Modern Intellectual Condition” (Commonweal, Dec. 17, 2017, pp. 13-19), I have continued to think about Robinson’s insights and to appreciate their importance.
An Evening with Marilynne Robinson
The Center for Faith and Work hosts An Evening with Marilynne Robinson at the W83 Ministry Center in Manhattan, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Human Dignity Amid Empirical Science
OCCASIONALLY I READ an essay in a periodical that I find so stimulating that I decide to share some of the insights of the author with readers of this column.