Holy Week and EasterRussell Shaw
Holy Week and Easter bring with them liturgies of great beauty and solemnity suitable to the momentous significance of the events they recall. That significance is of course redemption. And for assistance ...
Two new abortion cases Russell Shaw
Come right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident: a human embryo is either a human person or well along in the process of becoming one. In either case, the embryo enjoys ...
Eucharistic RevivalRussell Shaw
A New York Times/CBS poll some years ago found that two out of three adult American Catholics didn't believe that at Mass the consecrated bread and wine truly became Jesus' body and blood. Instead, ...
Ash Wednesday and Lent Russell Shaw
It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men, old and young, office and construction workers, corporate lawyers, police officers, messengers, and many others cut short ...
Making a Covid RetreatRussell Shaw
My recent experience of a COVID-induced quarantine during my first bout with this highly unpleasant disease got me thinking that, along with other purposes, the experience might be God's way of giving ...
What it means to bless someone or something Russell Shaw
Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll's fantasy "Through the Looking Glass" and makes this famous assertion: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more ...
How to mix religion and politicsRussell Shaw
After Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, the New York Times pronounced him part of the Christian nationalist movement. Then it hastened to find a sociologist ...
Supreme Court and the new abortion case Russell Shaw
Chances are good the Supreme Court soon will agree -- indeed, may have done so by the time you read this -- to hear a case pitting efforts to clamp down on mail order abortion against government efforts ...