Posted on 4/23/2013 1:40 PM By Jay
April 29, 2013
FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi
Today, among many of us churchgoers, there is growing-propensity to self-protect rather than risk crucifixion for the world. We are well-intentioned in this, but, good intentions notwithstanding, our actions are the opposite of Jesus. He loved the world enough to let himself be crucified rather than self-protect.
Posted on 4/23/2013 1:36 PM By Jay
April 29, 2013
JOHN CONNELLY
Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 5, 2013
Every breath we take is a gift from God. God breathes his life into you and me right now. God sustains us and loves us moment by moment.
Posted on 4/23/2013 1:34 PM By Jay
April 29, 2013
MARK PICKUP
The Second Reading for Mass on April 21 was from Revelation chapter 7. In John's divine vision, he sees a great multitude of martyrs dressed in white standing before the throne of the Lamb (Christ).
Posted on 4/23/2013 1:32 PM By Jay
April 29, 2013
GORDON SELF
I have spent a lot of free evenings and weekends lately on kitchen renovations. It is rewarding to use my hands to create something new.
Posted on 4/23/2013 1:30 PM By Jay
April 29, 2013
Do I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins?
Posted on 4/16/2013 8:23 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
The election of Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis has been hailed as a belated acknowledgement that the Roman Catholic Church is a global Church. But is it? Does the fact that the pope now hails from Argentina – and spent virtually his entire life in that country – mean the Church now has a more global outlook than under the papacies of those who came from Germany, Poland or Italy?
Posted on 4/16/2013 8:20 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi
In his novel, A Month of Sundays, John Updike presents us with a character, a lapsed vicar who, though himself struggling with faith, is extremely critical of his young assistant whose faith and theology he judges to be fluffy and lightweight. He describes his young assistant this way:
Posted on 4/16/2013 8:18 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
KATHLEEN GIFFIN
Fifth Sunday in Easter
April 28, 2013
I spent the last two days at a workshop, learning from Gordon Neufeld. He is a developmental psychologist who works with the attachment and maturation process in children and adolescents.
Posted on 4/16/2013 8:16 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
FR. ROBERT BARRON
In his classic text After Virtue, the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre lamented, not so much the immorality that runs rampant in our contemporary society, but something more fundamental and in the long run more dangerous; namely, that we are no longer even capable of having a real argument about moral matters.
Posted on 4/16/2013 8:12 AM By Jay
April 22, 2013
FR. RAYMOND DE SOUZA
He spent a life chronicling show business, so why not a show at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago for the funeral of Roger Ebert?