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Your thoughts on abolishing the priesthood
… reminiscent of the inquisition. I hadn't yet read the Carroll piece, so I did at that point. I kept looking for those parts of it criticized in the tweets; I read it twice. Except for a few … a punch because not as a "former priest" as some detractors would so call him, for he is at best an inactive priest or retired priest but forever a priest according to the theology of these … to the Editor online or in our print edition. We cannot publish everything. We will do our best to represent the full range of letters received. Here are the rules: Letters to the editor …
Trump's cheating may dishonor the sport, but I'll keep on golfing
… As these storm clouds darken skies over America's tees, fairways and greens, the nation's best-known amateur golfer — President Donald Trump — is dishonoring the game by his cheating, … teacher, Bernie Shulman, was also the golf coach. Read books, he said, but read greens, too. I kept at it in college with a scoring average of 69.5 in my junior year, which led me to turn pro …
We are an Easter people
… For many years I kept a note card on my refrigerator that proclaimed the message: "We are an Easter people." I was … know that the power of faith transforms even death. For we are an Easter people. The note card kept its post for many years. It became a memorial prayer card for Barb and a daily reminder that … (Acts 9:27). Those early folks also had presumptions about whom God favored and loved the best. In time they understood that God truly shows no partiality (Acts 10:34) among humankind. …
St. Benedict's eighth step of humility: to grow, not to fossilize
… on and hanging on. The major question of modern life, you see, is deciding what needs to be kept if we are to stay what we are — Christian — and what we need to let go of if we want to be … to itself. We don't go to a group to lose ourselves. We go to groups in order to become our best selves while we enable everybody else there to become their best selves, too. We come to find the acumen we ourselves lack and become part of the …
Jean Vanier, who changed lives of intellectually disabled, dies in Paris
… a member of the Order of Canada, and member of France's Legion of Honor, but he was perhaps best known as a kind of village elder to the world. Vanier permanently changed the fate of … and very traditional Catholic faith — spending long hours at prayer on the deck of ships as he kept watch. By 1950, he felt he needed something more than his naval career could give him. He …
Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer of honesty and humor, dies at age 37
… a medically induced coma while working to determine the cause and treatment, he said. Evans is best known for her popular blog and best-selling books, including New York Times best-seller A … a label that no longer fit." She wrote about her subsequent journey away from church and what kept leading her back in 2015's Searching for Sunday , and about rediscovering a love for …
For millennials, mysticism shows a path to their home faiths
… that changed his faith and life. "This white light kind o f overcame me and I ended up — the best way to describe it is in a trance — and I saw this vision of Jesus," said Lambert, 27, who … Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. "The silence and contemplation has really kept me grounded, holding the paradoxical questions of faith," Lambert said. The contemplative …
Easter Sunday
… the Lord and “we” do not know where he is. The disciples were in a state of confusion — at best. The Gospel for Easter Sunday afternoon (Luke 24:13-36) returns to Luke’s narrative and … was a woman, perhaps his wife who seems to have been one of the four women whom John says kept vigil by Jesus’ cross. Luke’s interest is not in identifying them, but in letting us know …
Easter Sunday: Recognizing Jesus
… the Lord and "we" do not know where he is. The disciples were in a state of confusion — at best. The Gospel for Easter Sunday afternoon (Luke 24:13-36) returns to Luke's narrative and … was a woman, perhaps his wife who seems to have been one of the four women whom John says kept vigil by Jesus' cross. Luke's interest is in letting us know how they came to recognize the …
Via Crucis on US streets: Faithful accompany Jesus in his suffering
… streets, with costumes and well-rehearsed actors, resonated with her. Year after year, she kept coming back. Thirty years later, Quintana is now president of the Pilsen Via Crucis … 'Deep teaching at its best' … said. "I can't think of a better Christian message than that. That is deep teaching at its best." Estrada said, "As we participate this year, [Erick] is in our hearts and he's going to be …
Emptying ourselves as Jesus did
… Jesus leads the way by forgiving the anonymous adulterous woman, providing us one of the best known of all Scripture quotes: "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to … Gospels it could easily have been forgotten. Only the community's constant need to forgive kept it alive until it eventually found a home. Our traditional Palm Sunday readings trigger a … point of the liturgy we are celebrating. Carroll Stuhlmueller frequently insisted that the best definition of a disciple of God is contained in this third song of the Suffering Servant of …
Rome conference hopes to uproot prejudice against the Pharisees
… Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Gregorian University hope to gather the best in recent scholarship on the important Jewish leaders and offer suggestions for how to … "for Jews, the Pharisees were the antecedents of the rabbis, they were admirable teachers who kept Judaism alive apart from the Temple and in the diaspora." Yet Christians, relying … today than previous generation thought they knew," which is why the conference will seek the best in current knowledge from Catholic, Jewish and Protestant Scripture scholars, theologians, …
In UK and US, political elites squandered deference they once enjoyed
… to President Bush because he was that only person to whom they could look. He successfully kept the confidence of a majority of Americans even after no weapons of mass destruction were … the most cohesive expression of Christian ethical insights into our common life and the best antidote to any bastardization of the Christian religion. Already in this election cycle, we …
Your thoughts on parish collections, priestly class, racism pastoral and more
… higher rate of tax on their earned income than the wealthy do on their unearned income. The best measure of how rich someone is isn't income. It's wealth. Warren's proposal is a modest tax … Carlo Vigano's in that they both are just trying to defame good people who are trying their best to serve the Lord. To trash other humans, through innuendo, insinuation, gossip, and … to the Editor online or in our print edition. We cannot publish everything. We will do our best to represent the full range of letters received. Here are the rules: Letters to the editor …
Cardinal from Myanmar: Poverty is a manmade disaster
… on Catholic social teaching. "Poverty is not natural, as rain or snow. People are made poor, kept poor," he said. "Poverty is the mortal sin of modern times." But instead of putting economic … of St. John's University in New York also saw poverty as the result of human action. "The best way to help poor countries is to stop stealing from them," he said. "Poor countries …
Taking stock of the clergy sexual abuse crisis: protecting children
… those who had only one accusation against them. Before 2002, bishops sometimes simply kept these priests out of parishes and restricted them to administrative work or ministering to … available, either children or adults. It was not till 2002 that the bishops accepted that the best policy was not to allow any child abuser to continue acting as a priest. The Dallas Charter …
'This is my beloved, listen to him'
… to renew that risen life within us and to follow more deeply the way of Jesus. I think we best understand the Gospel if we remember that just a short time before in this Gospel of Luke, … tried to craw away or lie still, while others ran or crouched behind the dead, but the gunman kept pulling the trigger. He shot fleeing women and girls, and pumped bullet after bullet into …
Bishops' migration chair urges House pass new bill to protect 'Dreamers'
… our universities, and leaders in our parishes. It is both our moral duty and in our nation's best interest to protect them and allow them to reach their full God-given potential." For these … protect Dreamers and those covered by temporary protected status and DED so that families are kept intact. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee March 6, the bishop said such …
Colorado Civil Rights Commission drops complaint against cake baker
… while Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said both sides "agreed it was not in anyone's best interest to move forward with these cases." The new complaint emerged on the same day in … impermissible hostility toward (Jack's) sincere religious beliefs." But the state of Colorado kept its legal crosshairs fixed on him and the new complaint was filed against Phillips, this …
'Urban chic' One City Café serves chef-created meals to needy Kansas Citians
… "Is serving a meal to those in need enough?" Doug Langner kept asking himself. The community kitchen at Bishop Sullivan Center — a nonprofit offering food, … me for anything, she was just like, 'Thank you for listening,' " Castor said. "That was the best night." …