Search
Drought, heat making Midwest corn farmers pray for rain
… farmers in the Midwest was evidenced by what topped Mary Margaret O'Connor's "day's best memory" list as the July 8 celebration of her parish church's centennial came to a close. … country church," Greg told The Catholic Post, newspaper of the Peoria Diocese. His brother kept an eye on the sky, hoping for what he called "a million-dollar rain" and acknowledging there …
How do we agree on restoration of the church?
… that closed off the center aisle. I stepped through and was now among fellow worshippers -- kept apart from the hum of visitors and the clicks of cameras. Up on the altar, I suddenly … back to me later -- that sense of turning back to step ahead. That night, I went to see "The Best Man" on Broadway. The play, by Gore Vidal, was first produced in 1960 and takes place during …
Civil rights figure talks nonviolence and faith in today's society
… He has taught for the last few decades at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, but he is best known for his work with Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership … it mean to build a society whose major focus is on the needs of the least of these, not the best and the brightest? To start with the most broken, the prisoners, the poor, the poor, the … we have built into our life a major contradiction for hundreds of years. It has only been at best the last 50 years or so that there has been anything close to a sense of common commitment …
Bishops' Battlelines on the Economy
… too often, the bishops’ statements in the past seemed to support state-run programs as the best way to fight poverty. He then made a factual claim: Naumann characterized such government … As Archbishop Lori said during the Q-and-A, the social teaching of the Church is one of its “best kept secrets.” That needs to change and it should be hoped that the upcoming statement will …
Lawyer battling lymphoma finds hope in Christ's truth
… cynicism. One of my closest friends to this day is a Jesuit whose courses were among the best I took. … soup kitchen. I was moved to find that the great pastor there -- Msgr. Robert O'Connor -- had kept his gorgeous church a place where the destitute could find rest. … the right balance between continuity and change. A church that understands herself as the best expression of Christ's truth but appreciates she can learn from elsewhere. …
Bp Blaire Breaks the Dam
… argument, explained his differences of opinion with some of his brother bishops regarding the best way to address the religious liberty concerns the bishops all share. Here is the key part of … don’t have our belief….We’d be like the Amish, you know, kind of isolated from society, if we kept pulling back because of a single issue.” That was 2009, when Archbishop Chaput was still in …
SNAP order could 'chill' abuse cases, advocates say
… this move by Tierney's lawyers could be part of a broader realization by the church that "the best way that they can protect themselves from lawsuits is if they can keep them from being … documents from the group that defense lawyers gain access to will be marked confidential and kept in the possession of one of SNAP's lawyers. A log of all access to the documents will be kept. "There's no outing of abuse victims going on here," Madden told Mesle on April 20. "Just so …
Man raised in orphanages uses memoir to reach the abused, abandoned
… and loving way. They very well knew that an idle mind is the devil's workshop, so we were kept busy from morning to night. By bedtime, we were exhausted. I could see that the nuns really … Playing on St. Vincent's Home Pop Warner Football teams was one of the best experiences I ever had. St. Vincent's did not encourage us to play for our high school … Definitely, even though I kept my upbringing a secret for close to 40 years, I realize now more than ever, it made me who I …
First economist saint packs contemporary punch
… on the legacy of Catholic social teaching, which is sometimes wistfully called the church’s “best-kept secret.” … voluntary associations, unions, and so on. Toniolo saw these intermediary bodies as the best expression of what Catholic social thought would later come to call “subsidiarity,” meaning … seemed to span both. He took part in the organizations linked to the intransigents, but also kept open lines of communication with the modernizers, engaging in frequent and warm …
Ryan Takes Another Stab
… and state legislators and mayors have been trying to find creative ways to do so, it is the best kept secret in the world. Turning everything over to the market is no solution and blabbing …
Make hope active in your life
… to the outcomes that seem likely. With Active Hope, we consciously choose to draw out our best responses, so that we might surprise even ourselves by what we bring forth. Can we train … matter how hopeless it appears. Change for the better is possible. "Thanks to the people who kept alive the spark of their convictions through periods of ridicule and persecution, changes … significant to offer, a contribution to make. In rising to the challenge of playing our best role, we discover something precious that both enriches our lives and adds to the healing of …
When did immigrants become the enemy?
… seems to require those it vilifies to obey the rule of silence. Their tongues are often kept in check through the threat of imprisonment and deportation. God forbid if they become … -- not to mention our spiritual health -- to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society? What's missing is …
Surprise! Catholic social teaching is the church's best-kept secret
… have opted to tread lightly, sadly guaranteeing that Catholic social teaching will remain our best-kept secret. From time to time, a passing reference is made to Catholic social teaching, but …
Mrs. Kennedy and Bishop McManus
… for them. Nor can their change of heart on the issue be excused, although it is probably best explained, by a sense that women had a different perspective on this issue and that, as … indiscriminate in their accusations and foul in their methods. The Sodalitium Pianum kept records of many suspected of heresy including a young priest Angelo Roncalli who would go on …
Catholics and racism: from examination of conscience to examination of culture
… it comes to addressing a variety of social questions and often referred to as the church's "best-kept secret," began in 1891 with a papal encyclical about the plight of workers in Europe's …
Reported sexual assault at Notre Dame campus leaves more questions than answers
… a Skype session with Lizzy the day before she died, Hale said, "the conflict was, 'Do I do the best I can and get on with my life, versus the fear that if I do that, this could happen to … as in Harper Lee's classic, "this young lady was the aggressor." According to America's Best Lawyers, Power is the top personal injury litigator in the city of Chicago. Barreling right …
Of Franklin Graham, Fox News and faith's distortion
… abortion, the troop build-up in Afghanistan and a recent tendency to ignore those who have his best interests at heart. That said, I have no basis to question or doubt the importance of faith … Aug. 30, 2010: Fox co-host Brian Kilmeade on "Fox & Friends" states, "Wouldn't [Obama] have kept his name as Barry, and not Barack," if he were worried about the "24 percent of this country …
St. Francis Univ Ethics Lecture
… of good will and good conscience can disagree, and disagree profoundly, as to which answer is best and, more importantly, which answers are even tolerable. That is my first point: American … long tradition of social teachings. Sometimes, this social teaching is called “the Church’s best kept secret.” It is time to let others in on the secret. In a word, the twin pillars of …
Moves signal potential nuclear reduction
… presidents’ studies only addressed those that are deployed strategically, not those that are kept in active reserve or inactive storage. The president’s fiscal year 2013 budget, released … weapons. “We’re a long way between what we have and what’s going to be proposed even under the best of circumstances,” he said. “But I think the idea is to gradually reduce the United States’ …
Vatican II priests still embrace council's model despite reversals
… liturgical reform and more. “Sometimes I think the Second Vatican Council is the church’s best-kept secret,” said Fr. David Pettingill, a retired priest of the San Francisco archdiocese …