At the Easter Vigil a few weeks ago, tens of thousands of men and women, mature adults, were baptized or entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. Each of them walked a unique itinerary of conversion; each of these “newborn babes” (1 Peter 2:2) is a singular work of the Holy Spirit.
By faith, we know that evil has been vanquished. By experience, we know that it still exists. This is the mystery: vanquished, but not extinguished.
God has blessed me with the honor of accompanying survivors of clergy sexual abuse on their journey toward healing, and as we prepare for our second Mass of Hope and Healing, I invite all those who have been impacted by childhood sexual abuse to join us.
Common Sense Media is proposing with a new character development rating system. After polling parents about what character traits they most want to see displayed in the entertainment their children view, 11 qualities drew the most favor. Then Common Sense’s reviewers had to be trained on what to look for on screen when those traits are displayed.
My first column was about taking laughter seriously. As a kickoff to this 10th anniversary, I thought I’d revisit the subject of how laughter might impact our lives and health, particularly through the prism of medical practice and science.
The pope cannot… change the deposit of faith, of which he is the custodian, not the master.
I’m pretty sure the teacher was a little concerned when I told her students I didn’t like to read when I was a kid.
Like many Catholics in the U.S., I once went through the trauma of my childhood church closing… That little church had been my life, but on that sunny Saturday, everything was all about tomorrow.
The movie “The Bucket List” inspired people to reflect on what they want to do before they die. I honestly thought I was doing well with my list – until the cancer scare.
The grittiness of Lent, and the “intransigent historical claims” without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or “narratives,” but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.
