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Two funerals and a parish
… parish listserv and talked of strategies to stay in a sexist church — or whether to stay — I kept quiet. Some tried to arrange a protest or a meeting with Chicago Cardinal Francis George, at … this family in good times and in bad. There is something about death that can bring out the best and the worst in humans — and human institutions. The next Sunday, I went back to Mass, …
Archbishop Dolan: A superman for Catholic schools?
… It is a far-reaching move, but one that makes sense. Here in Los Angeles, Cardinal Mahony has kept struggling inner city schools alive through a wildly successful annual findraising appeal … form of parish schools in impoverished neighborhoods -- schools that truly do provide the last best chance of getting ahead. If you care about these kids, you have to root for Archbishop …
Faith's survivor on the walk of atonement
… off to a simple breakfast of toast and tea to discuss -- well, everything -- but mostly how best to give life to Catholic teaching in a modern, and challenging, world. Sister Mary would … the school year at morning Mass, Sister Mary wore her plain button down blue sweater and kept an eye out from a near rear pew for any misbehaving child whose misdemeanor transgressions …
20 years after Ex Corde: What was all the fuss about?
… theology, from the local bishop. Cavadini argued that a juridical focus on the mandatum often kept Catholic schools from focusing on “the ideal” of Catholic intellectual life presented by … renewal of the church, our age needs the intellectual ethos of Catholic universities at their best.” Patrick Reilly Not all the verdicts on the implementation of Ex Corde were so positive. …
Tonight's Speech From the Oval Office
… be clear about that, but the strategy being pursued in Afghanistan by General Petraeus is the best of a bad set of options, and the only option with even a glimmer of a chance at success. … the first order, but that milk was spilt by the time Obama arrived in the Oval Office. He has kept his promise to the American people to end our combat role in that country. That is no small …
'Leaked recordings taken out of context'
… he said. "At that moment, however, the family didn't want to make public something they'd kept secret for 24 years." Belgium's Flemish-language De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad dailies … before and after the bishop's 1985 consecration. Osaer told CNS that Cardinal Danneels had not kept notes from the "informal private meeting" April 8 and could not verify the transcript's …
Belgium cardinal tried to keep abuse victim quiet
… an earlier press conference, because "he assumed that it was a confidential conversation to be kept within the family." The spokesman said that Danneels "acted out of concern for the anonymity … he said. "At that moment, however, the family didn't want to make public something they'd kept secret for 24 years." Osaer told CNS that Cardinal Danneels had not kept notes from the …
Parish community refuses to be suppressed
… the bishop went around the diocese closing parishes,” said Bob Zack, a community leader, “he kept saying a parish is not a piece of real estate. It’s a community of people. We understood … 700 members of the former parish. The group met for months, she noted, trying to discern the best course of action and finally decided to proceed with Mass in the new space. About 350 people …
Q & A: Meagher on Mansfield
… immigration the year before Patrick came, in 1896. The President vetoed it. It wouldn't have kept Patrick and Josephine or the Irish out; Ireland had among the highest literacy rates in the … He returned to Montana a world wide traveler but without a high school diploma, and so the best job he could find was in the copper mines as a “mucker“, keeping the mine shafts clean and …
Dallas bishop welcomes LCWR - with media absent
… is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, addressed the LCWR, but the media was kept from entering the room in which she spoke. The Catholic Health Association (CHA) and LCWR … by Vatican officials LCWR was facing a doctrinal inquiry. Since that time LCWR has worked, as best it can, outside the public spotlight, a strategy reflected here at its annual gathering. …
Leaving Iraq
… The day the last American soldier leaves Iraq will not be a great day. It will be the best day possible given the string of mistakes that preceded it. It is certainly not the stuff of … day. And, they, more than most of us, can appreciate how important is that the President has kept his promise. …
Bishop to Congress: 'Immigration is humanitarian issue'
… and a means to ensure them an earned pathway to legal status. They disagreed, however, on the best solution for the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country. Bishop Kicanas said … Kicanas said he was basing his answer on what the church teaches, that is families must be kept together. Lungren responded, "So they should be treated better than our men and women in the …
Obama and Benedict: A partnership delayed, but not yet denied
… reviews on a personal level, but observers say the embassy during his tenure has so far kept a low profile -- in part, some speculate, because of the broader uncertainties surrounding … of the encyclical in the United States and its potential implications. Along with the best and brightest of American Catholic thinkers, organizers have also asked me to sit in -- …
Mother Teresa and the U.S.S. Intrepid
… wondered aloud about those high Ignatian ideals of "the faith that does justice." Despite my best efforts, the dance was held there, as dozens of us, including several Jesuits, kept vigil outside. The Fordham administration later announced they would never again allow a … what we have with those in need and performing some work of mercy and peace. That’s the best way to celebrate and honor her life. **** To contribute to Catholic Relief Services’ “Fr. …
Why the World Cup is Good for Us
… Cup win, an entire country went nuts for hours, thrilled that their team, their country, had bested the best teams in the world. (I am sure some flowers got trampled on then, too.) We all know why the … it on your Netflix list. On that long flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Los Angeles, the pilot kept waking us up to update us on the matches. – no one complained! We have the World Series of …
Struggling to understand a bishop's murder in Turkey
… the situation facing Christianity in Turkey – a country long held up as perhaps the last, best hope for carving out a genuinely moderate and pluralistic form of Islam, capable of … into Padovese's death, that the church wants the "full truth," adding that "nothing must be kept hidden." * * * Jesuit Fr. Tom Michel is a veteran of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for … of Muslims already committed to dialogue. We don't have to find people and convince them. The best-known examples would be the Nur Community, followers of Said Nursi, and their cousins in the …
Drawn-out disaster frays nerves
… more, fish and ocean experts had been saying all winter that this fishing season would be the best ever, that the fisheries had fully recovered from earlier depredations, Vinton said, “so … 21) Louisiana's 'Erin Brokovich' faces her toughest challenge , clean up technology has not kept up with exploration and drilling technology (June 10) No clue how to deal with this enormous …
Gulf oil spill
… yet and there was a huge sigh of just unbelief. Our hope had been built up that this was our best chance. ... We were kind of drug along, and then, boom, it’s not [working].” Arnone … 21) Louisiana's 'Erin Brokovich' faces her toughest challenge , clean up technology has not kept up with exploration and drilling technology (June 10) No clue how to deal with this enormous …
The Two Cultures of Sisters
… works of kindness that sisters have performed for centuries. It is the spirit that founded and kept the Catholic schools, hospitals and social service agencies to attend to the crises of … Christian evangelist; next to it, the ecclesiastical structures speak only modestly of it at best and at worst reflect the sordid human condition. But nuns also exist in that system which, I …
Angels, redemption and Grace
… Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter) talks with her best friend, Rhetta Rodriguez (Lara San Giacomo, left). (TNT) Grace Hanadarko (Holly Hunter) talks with her best friend, Rhetta Rodriguez (Lara San Giacomo, left). (TNT) I am not “into” angels. I don’t … admittedly graphic scenes is to show that while Grace’s partying life can be fun, it also has kept her heart closed -- and that only God can help open it. And if it takes a winged angel to …