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'I will remain faithful': The love of Sr. Nijole Sadunaite
… on the Chronicle. She did not, she told me, and in fact, she describes those months as "the best of my life, because I have never felt God so caringly close." Before each interrogation … in prison as well.) Sadunaite returned to Lithuania from exile in the early 1980s, but the KGB kept a watchful eye on her. There were more detentions, though not another trial and …
'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways
… an American church shaped by three decades of progressive change. If the church is often best known to non-Catholics for its opposition to abortion, it had grown increasingly liberal … from the University of Wisconsin, just a couple miles up the road. The church is a well-kept island of Catholicism tucked into the leafy residential streets of one of America's most …
Why you might have heard Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound of Silence’ at Spanish Mass
… the Episcopal church where he was a music minister that he planned to make a record, people kept coming up to him after Mass asking for a recording of the Our Father. At the height of the … However, Chávez-Bárcenas said the technique has always been controversial, with the best known policies against it coming during the Counter-Reformation. “In Latin America, …
Aren't we all like Freddie Mercury?
… while I had to pretend to be Sid Caesar, the funniest guy in the room, or Ernie Banks, the best ballplayer on the team. Anything to belong. It was only when we all became old that I … that my friends, too, all of them, had suffered lack and loss of one kind or another but kept it to themselves, and had to fake it to make it as much as I did. We were all "The Great … know why we pretend, but I have observed that we all become what we pretend to be, so it is best to pretend to be what we really are: beloved children of God, safe and secure in the arms of …
Oscar-winning 'Zone of Interest' exposes Auschwitz through a domestic lens
… The Zone of Interest " — which was filmed at Auschwitz and won the Oscar earlier this week for best international feature film — asks a more disturbing and damning question: What was it like … them Oscar winners. ("Schindler's" director Steven Spielberg has praised the new movie as the best Holocaust film since his own.) Rather than portraying any immediate horrors, we see a story …
Cardinal Gregory: Political polarization has 'infected' Catholic Church
… high school. "The way to a listening church is through immersion and encounter, that's the best way," she said, noting the importance of connecting with her students through their cultures … as they adopted the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People." "The thing I kept in the back of my mind was Gerry Weber and John Hayes, such wonderful men in my life, they …
New book 'The Modern Saints' captures diversity of church
… We can all use whatever different talents and skills and passions we have. I thought the best way to do this was through creativity. The project really started accidentally. I found two … Then at an art fair, the person in the booth across from me had blue hair, and I noticed they kept looking at my icon of St. Joan of Arc , whom I depicted with blue hair. I think it's … that didn't look like them or because they were consciously creating something they could best relate to. Which is the same thing I do; I just don't believe changing the subject's …
How to vault Catholic social teaching from 'best kept secret' category
… Catholic social teaching is proverbially considered the church's "best kept secret." Why is that? And what can be done about it? These are among the questions that …
Detroit ministry to offer 'deeper level of care and healing' to homeless people
… homelessness. McCabe wanted to see and study the most effective programs — what really worked best for homeless people. "There was a place in San Antonio," he recalled, "that I really liked. … of the campus just a few months away, McCabe is quick to say that many "miracles" that have kept this ministry alive have come through people — those who work at the Pope Francis Center, or …
Green Day's new album calls for society's 'Saviors' to arise
… ballads that came to define the very sound of the early aughts. "American Idiot," their second-best-selling album, famously (and relentlessly) criticized then-President George Bush, the Iraq … Green Day themselves, seems to know how challenged our world is, but apathy and nihilism have kept them on the sidelines — until now. Though the album title is undoubtedly meant in jest, …
Edmundite Missions' Black Farmers Initiative boosts rural community
… Before transforming their "food pantry" to a "food market," where clients could choose the best groceries for their families, the Missions asked clients what they wished to receive more … to the stories, Nelson obtained land in Autaugaville, Alabama. Nelson was literate and kept track of his expenses. One year, when he went to pay back his loans, he noticed that he had …
Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change and pollution to protect a sacred tradition
… day's work, Kuali'i says he knows it's "God telling us it's not time yet, to slow down." The best part of salt making is giving it all away, he said. "Sharing is Hawaiian. This is something you make with your hands. I may not be the best at everything, but I can make Hawaiian salt." Kane Turalde has been coming to the salt patch … ancestors here so when I arrive, they are here." In his family's home, Turalde's grandmother kept a bowl of salt by the door. Everyone would take a pinch and say a prayer before going out, …
Archbishop's Mass ban for ecumenical community reflects outdated hierarchical model
… Catholic faithful of the archdiocese, the key principles governing the sacred liturgy, and how best to promote Christian unity." All of that he accomplished, according to undisputed reports … has a significant effect on each: What is a church to do when fear no longer works? Fear once kept Catholics in the pews and in line. Generations in this country raised on the transactional …
Homelessness crisis shows our country needs a new national story
… symptoms through a variety of mechanisms, including inability to maintain medications that had kept them stable, lack of sleep, experiences of violence, and experiences of shame and stigma … tell ourselves that hide the actual, often destructive workings of society. Of course, she was best known for applying this eye to California. But a comment she made about New York City is …
Programs to address chronic homelessness need more funding, support, say advocates
… new units plummeted, causing prices to skyrocket across the country. Meanwhile wages haven't kept pace with housing cost increases. The severe shortage of affordable housing in the United … to End Homelessness. "They aren't afraid to take it on as an issue and really work to find the best way to approach it." Johnson said the pilot cities have successfully addressed housing in …
Bishop Stowe: Kentucky lawmakers, focus on human flourishing, not book bans
… is the priority to get under control or that placing limits on the union dues collected is the best way to improve the quality of life for workers? As we witness the ongoing destruction of … beauty that everyone would agree is especially abundant in Kentucky, is it really in the best interest of Kentuckians to add more bureaucracy to the process of retiring coal-fired … beliefs. To walk humbly with God cannot mean that Muslims are to be treated with disrespect or kept out of the nation altogether. To walk humbly with God cannot mean that we quietly accept …
Floods did not dampen the spirit of the Pakistani people
… occupied the area. When the occupiers left, the Pakistan government developed the system and kept it productive. The rain changed all of this positive development to a disaster when it came … to save other areas. Some families fled the area but others had to stay and survive as best they could. Our response to the disaster, as sisters, was to go from village to village to …
Wisdom sustains us on the journey of life
… studies and communications. In this field, I found my strength and it is from where I could best respond to mission within the Good Shepherd community. There were times in my early years … vows, with him serving as the eucharistic presider during the ceremony. Since then, we have kept in touch throughout my religious life. He is now retired in Wellington and is still writing …
Sisters foster healing for survivors and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's civil war
… and even friends. Here, Maria Tu Sesay and her neighbor, Amara Sahr Kemba, have become best friends. But 21 years ago, at the height of the country's civil war that killed an estimated … you cannot force someone to forgive. It had to come from the heart. You just have to do your best, and God will do the rest." The survivors agreed with the religious sisters, saying the path … forgiveness, the message started to sink deep into my heart, and I began to feel better. They kept encouraging me to move forward with life and forgive my offenders." Bangura noted that …
Solidarity among Moroccans brings hope for the future, Caritas official says
… day to empty out supermarkets here in Marrakech, where nothing could be found because people kept buying (supplies) to take to the people in the mountains," he said, emphasizing a vast … News that Morocco "is a sovereign country like any other" that can "decide for itself what is best." Nevertheless, he continued, the "government has not abandoned Moroccans. If this is said, …