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"Who do people say I am?"
… because people are saying, “They want what I have, but I won’t let them have it; it’s mine”? A disciple of Jesus doesn’t have that attitude. Everything I have is a gift, everything I …
Interview with Archbishop Thomas Wenski
… A colleague of mine wrote yesterday that the pallium ceremony symbolizes how leadership in the church is out of …
Hardscrabble life leads to service to others
… we can’t stand up straight and we stagger back and forth like a crew of hunchbacks working the mines of hell.” There is a cultural Catholicism in the background throughout the story. “There is …
Interview with Archbishop Dennis Schnurr
… Archbishop Listecki and Archbishop Wenski very well, and I know their talents, which aren’t mine. I’m encouraged to know that men with those talents, of that caliber, and with that love of …
A happy adoption story
… who adopted a little boy from Malawi. The adoptive mother is a former seminary classmate of mine and the former religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times (and author of several books). …
A voice for the Philippinesí poorest
… Last December, there was an issue on an island in the Philippines where there was Norwegian mining planned. It would have destroyed the habitat of our indigenous people and the poor farmers …
Maryknoll Missioner captures valuable Asian scholarship
… to be lost,” he said earlier this year in an interview in his Manila office. “How people will mine these resources, that remains to be seen.” Kroeger has been a missioner in Asia since 1970. …
Words of encouragement in a time of challenge
… You let me touch your times of vulnerability and pain. You shared your stories and accepted mine. You were my mentors, my colleagues, my teachers, my students and my friends. The call of …
A foundation laid by black women
… particular churches -- as well as in other religions, especially Buddhism and Islam. It is a mine of information for future theses, dissertations and other works on black women’s critical …
Double belonging: Buddhism and Christian faith
… There’s no one answer. In the book, I quote a friend of mine, Fr. Michael O’Halloran, who is formerly a Carthusian monk and now a priest here in the New …
Apostolic Visitation: Why Bother? Why be Bothered?
… The message is a clear one: We’re all in this together. Let’s see what your experience and mine have to share with one another. But new understandings of how best to live a vowed life in a …
Serving the faithful
… in new Vatican financial scandal ). Here's what caught my eye in the AP report (emphasis is mine). "[Sepe] sought to dispel suggestions that he had been demoted to Naples archbishop by Pope …
My grandfather's once-in-a-lifetime faith
… My grandfather was born and raised in the mining hills of Alabama. He stopped formal schooling at the age of 12 and went to work in …
Media covered clergy abuse more than Tea Party
… news coverage, and the economy took second place with 14.5 percent. The West Virginia coal mine accident finished third with 3.4 percent. Other topics -- the Iceland volcanic eruption, the …
Fla. governor and his abortion bill veto
… a woman's right to privacy." The Florida Times-Union calls Crist's action political land mine According to USA Today, just before Crist vetoed the abortion bill, he had a slight lead in …
Integrating faith, ethics in business decision-making
… the loans, a car company not immediately disclosing serious problems with its vehicles, a coal mine operating under dangerous conditions, and a state attorney general repeatedly …
A priest and his kids
… as the church reaches out in new ways to attract more priests to the fold. A Jesuit friend of mine comes from the same background – he commited to the priesthood after his wife’s untimely …
Celebrating the doctrine of the Holy Trinity
… to those words of Jesus at the end of his discourse in today’s gospel, “All that God has is mine and because of this, I’ve just told you, the spirit will take what is mine and make it known to you.” “The spirit will take from what is mine,” Jesus says, “Everything that God has is mine,” Jesus says, “In God, there is no yours and …
The biblical paradigm of liberation
… in Latin America, and ecumenical environmentalists have found in Brueggemann’s work a deep mining of the scriptures to support their ideas and activism. With 58 books and hundreds of …
Priest takes reform message to Wall Street, literally
… assembly meetings, presses causes on Capitol Hill that range from Sri Lankan refugees to strip mining and rights of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh, and shuttles around the world trying to …