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Columnists and contributors
Tiziana C. Dearing
Stepping beyond sympathy to help the poor
Posted: 7/18/2008
I was moved by the number of people who commiserated after my last column about finding grace through a kitchen renovation. Many understood the misery of redoing a kitchen. Even more people understood the terrible feeling that comes with realizing you just set a lousy example for your children.
Clark Booth
Catching up
Posted: 7/18/2008
Here’s a little of this and a bit of that as we endeavor to catch up after a two-week sabbatical on the beach.
Daniel Avila
Happy anniversary to the Credo of the People of God
Posted: 6/27/2008
June 30 marks the 40th anniversary of the Credo of the People of God. Pope Paul VI introduced the Credo as a post-Second Vatican Council version of the Nicene Creed that Catholics recite at Mass. The Credo is a beautiful and still fresh summary of the Catholic faith that deserves renewed attention.
Dale O’Leary
Diversity or tragedy
Posted: 6/27/2008
In recent decades there has been a big push among progressive educators for recognizing “diversity;” the idea being that school should be a place that welcomes all students regardless of their differences. There is in principle nothing wrong with making sure that children no matter their race, ethnic or religious background should feel that their heritage is represented and respected.
Dwight G. Duncan
What would Paul do?
Posted: 6/27/2008
Starting June 28, the day before the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, the Church begins a Jubilee Year dedicated to St. Paul, roughly two thousand years after the birth of the Apostle of the Gentiles. Blinded on the road to Damascus, this persecutor of the first Christians and accomplice in the death of the first martyr, St. Stephen, Paul heard the voice of Christ ask him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” From that moment, he was converted into a fearless apostle of Christ and his mystical Body the Church.
Kevin and Marilyn Ryan
Who is teaching them about their ultimate goal?
Posted: 6/20/2008
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” St. Mark’s rather pointed question is hard to ignore. It’s a three-o’clock-in-the-morning question, one of those essential or ultimate questions that just won’t go away.
Tiziana Dearing
Grace in the kitchen
Posted: 6/20/2008
My husband and I are in the middle of redoing our kitchen. Not fun. We are entering our sixth week and are almost done. Most people tell me that is incredibly quick, but to me it has felt like a burden and an eternity. That is, until I embarrassed myself into a moment of grace while standing in front of my slightly-too-peach granite countertop over the weekend.
Father Richard M. Erikson
The promise of the new Pastoral Center
Posted: 6/13/2008
When I scheduled my 2008 retreat more than a year ago, little did I know then how poignant and timely the theme of the retreat -- Transitions, Times of Hope -- would become.
Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, Ofm. Cap.
The Eucharist and the Evangelical Life.
Posted: 6/13/2008
(Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, Ofm. Cap. delivered the following address at the Eucharistic Symposium and Congress in Quebec, June 11th – 13th, 2008.)
Patrick Madrid
Gluttony
Posted: 6/13/2008
Remember that 1970s TV commercial for Alka-Seltzer? A visibly nauseous man groans, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” His wife chides him saying, “You ate it.”
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
The last bulwark
Posted: 6/13/2008
Now that our daughter Nadja has victoriously returned home after a four year tour of duty in college, I had to work rather quickly to help everyone find and adjust their places in the household accordingly. In an attempt to head off what could have become a pecking order struggle between her and her next brother down, I advised Nadja to assume the position of the youngest adult in the household, rather than the oldest child. Now that she is “in the company of educated men and women,” Nadja is fully equipped to do what every responsible adult must do: that is, preserve, protect, and defend Western Civilization from the barbarian “culture” that surrounds and threatens it.
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk
Half human, half animal?
Posted: 6/6/2008
British scientists have recently received a green light from their regulatory agency to create “hybrid embryos.” Using cloning technology, these embryos are made out of human and animal parts. By injecting a human nucleus (the “human genetic package”) into a cow egg that has had its own genetic package taken out, a defective human embryo can be created.
Michael Pakaluk
Sticktoitiveness
Posted: 6/6/2008
To make progress in growing closer to Christ it helps to pick one thing and stick to it. Pick something which is optional, not a matter strictly of required morality or Church law. And then see if you can stay with it every day.
Frank Mazzaglia
Connecting parish and mission -- a St. James story
Posted: 6/6/2008
Whenever stories from the mission fields are told, people at home often ask how they can get more closely involved in the great work of bringing souls to Christ. This is how a parish priest and some dedicated lay people of Immaculate Conception Parish in Easthampton, Mass. made a difference.
Neil J. Savage
Bicentennial Moments and Memories: Remembrances of Msgr. Edward Murray
Posted: 6/6/2008
We were sitting at a table in the Four Provinces tavern in Roslindale Square, four or five of us drinking “dimies,” a small glass of tap beer for a dime. We were in our early 20s, a couple of us veterans of the Korean War. The subject of our conversation was -- as you would expect with such young men -- women. Or more specifically sex in and out of marriage.
Mary Ann McLaughlin
‘Arise Together in Christ’
Posted: 5/23/2008
Something wonderful is happening in the Archdiocese of Boston; it’s called Arise Together in Christ. You may have heard the buzz in your town, seen the lapel buttons that say, “Ask me about Arise” or watched the abbreviated training sessions on iCatholic.com. Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley has invited us to a time of spiritual renewal as we celebrate 200 years as the Church of Boston. He has invited the team from Renew International to prepare a program specifically for this archdiocese.
Daniel Grejdus
Heeding the call
Posted: 5/23/2008
I went to the celebration of the holy Mass at New York’s Yankee Stadium April 20 not as a fan or as a tourist but rather as a pilgrim from Boston. I journeyed with my sister, Paula, my friend, Laura, and my other sister, Sister Fiata of Our Good Shepherd who is a cloistered Carmelite nun and thus accompanying us in spirit, as pilgrims longing to see Christ, to trust in Christ, and to put our hope in Christ “for in hope we were saved” (Rom 8:24). And when we put our trust in Jesus, when we place all our hope and love in Jesus, “what will separate us from the love of Christ?” (Rom 8:35).
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