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Forging a common vision in Detroit
… sidelined him in the years before he retired. While he was in treatment, the staff and I kept the parish going because the associate pastor lived off-site and was there just on weekends … Mass and came otherwise only for funerals. I worked with good people who had good hearts. I kept going because I knew we had to take the risk. We had to meet and talk. We had to break down … Whoever had the biggest key ring had the power. We wanted to change the model so that the best keys were the keys to the Gospel. Power began to flow from people and relationships. Our …
A gut check for American Catholicism
… authority," thus goes to show that Catholic social teaching may indeed be the church's "best-kept secret." Nobody familiar with it should have been surprised.) Crepaldi did point to one … media -- on its own terms, and in a moment of its own choosing -- that's probably not the best way to exploit the opportunity. Nonetheless, the last two weeks offered much to build upon … making the question of whether a reader automatically caught the reference perhaps the best recent test in papal literature of true "Catholic insider" status.) The pope hailed the …
A map to the future church
… a religious order, the Medical Mission Sisters, with whom she stayed for six years. "But I kept getting depressed and I wasn't so sure about the celibacy thing, so I left. About five years … with a guy, but it didn't work out. She stayed in touch with her Medical Mission friends, and kept dating, but "it seemed like every time I was dating, I was two-timing God. I just couldn't shake it." She also kept going on retreats and ultimately realized that religious life "was really my life path." So …
Do you know Bill?
… "Take my yoke upon you ..." Matt 11:25 A man sitting on the bench at the bus stop kept looking at me as though he knew me. I didn't recognize him, and things only got more … and eat and sleep erratically. Editors will run over you to get a good story. Some of my best friends have been alcoholics, bright, articulate people with an angel assigned to beat them … to being in step with Jesus, we realize that he is showing us how to be our true self, our best self, a mature human being living under the influence of grace. It's like being in a jazz …
How song brought down an empire
… far nobler: hope, creativity, respect for the adversary. Nonviolent campaigns draw on the best of our humanity. And, according to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., they have every chance … competing keys found a center. The prohibited song had been raised, "Land that I Love." They kept at it, thousands singing spontaneously, until at last the maestro strode back to the stage …
Archbishop as Media Analyst
… through their Catholic publications.” Knowing that our time was quite limited and that, at best, each of us would probably get one question to ask the president, my colleagues and I used … and asked if the president would “write off” the leadership of the US Catholic Church if they kept hammering him, as dozens did prior to his recent Notre Dame speech. The goal of the question …
Preview of an encyclical
… Economic encyclical expands on church's 'best-kept secret' …
Pope to G8: 'Hear the voice of Africa and the poor!'
… poor nations because of the current economic crisis. In fact, the pope argues, that aid is the best remedy for the crisis. Benedict opposes any backtracking on the pledge established in the UN … woman of the Earth – that the worrying prospects of a global recession can most effectively be kept at bay? In truth, isn’t this the right way to obtain, as much as possible, a global economic …
In preview of new encyclical, Benedict reprises 'dictatorship of relativism' speech
… Economic encyclical expands on church's 'best-kept secret' …
Pioneering Catholic journalist dies
… and respected independent journalism. He left it up to Gintoft to edit the Herald and she kept it as one among the very best of the diocesan newspapers in the Catholic press. …
When Vatican II came to the Bronx, Part II
… games. There was Sr. Richard, of course, who taught us folk songs. Sr. Stephan was her best friend. By 1970, they would be allowed to revert to their birth names: Maryann and Karen -- … even wear the simple head scarf anymore; she was a great feminist role model for my girls, kept a giant jar of candy in her office, and was never the nightmare reason some kid turned away …
People of faith demand universal health care
… health care. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) WASHINGTON -- Washington's sweltering heat did its best to discourage people of faith from gathering at Freedom Plaza to participate in the … the son of a minister, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina said he has always kept the issue of health care reform on his mind. He told the crowd the story of coming home from …
Economic encyclical expands on church's 'best-kept secret'
… After the implosion of Soviet-style socialism, the late pope endorsed a market economy as the best way to foster "free human creativity in the economic sector." Even Centesimus Annus , … this social teaching plays to mixed reviews. Admirers describe it as the church's "best-kept secret," wishing it were better known and more widely accepted. To critics, it's a …
Insider accounts from a lonely man
… I felt a bit disillusioned on my return home, but made up my mind that I would do my best for the faithful and the priests of Milwaukee and not let myself be put in a dehumanizing … on the ordination of women, each draft of which was taken to the pope by Casaroli. The pope kept rejecting these versions until late Saturday night when he finally gave in. Our plane left … as if they were to be ostracized or treated as lepers. Although I never held the view that the best had left -- as some were inclined to say -- I did regret the inestimable loss to the church …
Dom Helder Camara, Presente!
… in small assemblies like peace and justice groups can the Gospel fire of love and peace be kept tended and fanned. One is shocked, too, by the strenuousness of his striving. The book … Dom Helder at my small Jesuit community in Oakland. I took the occasion to throw together my best soup and salad. In return he presented me with a Brazilian peace T-shirt. My friend Tom …
Weaving the world back together
… Published by Pantheon Books, $26 Terry Tempest Williams, a fifth-generation Mormon, is best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place . Now considered a … ourselves, that separate us from God or the mysteries.” The book’s center is a journal she kept while helping on a prairie dog study in Bryce Canyon National Park in central Utah. The Utah …
The Marys of Mother Africa: Story of Greedy Boy
… them encouragement and was able to help them raise a little money to help their endeavor. I kept saying to myself: just think of it, as in the days of eld: story flying through the air … that a number of villages would be given a precious little treasure chest that was to be kept safe by the headwoman of each village ... for this little box was the most rare of magical … For the taste of something sweet that came from the hard work of others, but that he kept all to himself without offering it to any other soul, had turned his heart. Even though his …
Madison's Morlino noted for othodoxy, controversy
… Kevin Phelan, which, they said, failed to achieve a “positive resolution.” Kolpack Kolpack has kept a low profile, but has said that during her 10-minute meeting with Morlino he informed her … teachings” and that any contrary to church doctrine “are at worst seriously scandalous, and at best very inappropriate.” Asserting, or reasserting, church orthodoxy has been a hallmark of the …
Obama, an Enneagram One, to live the law
… system. Personal preferences yield to the needs of the system. We saw an early principle: the best person for the job. What was missing was any reference to how good a friend was the personal … trying hard. Obama will have to realize that the most obstreperous senator is doing the best that he can under the circumstances that he sees himself in – things like reelection, party … community organizer with defeat scribbled on every wall and etched in every defeated face. He kept going against the evidence. This could get him into trouble if he has a policy that is not …
A Lenten exercise in forgiveness
… But given the nature of Jesus’ life, the life he calls us to, his capacity for forgiveness kept him on the path. All his days he was mocked, ridiculed, insulted, put under surveillance and … as recounted in my autobiography, A Persistent Peace, grew to 75 entries before shame got the best of me and I put down the pen.) Your list complete, write a formal prayer. Tell God that you …