NCR Connections: Though she's had to read less this summer, editor Heidi Schlumpf still has some books worth recommending — along with some noteworthy TV shows, two stellar concerts, and a gift of an icon.
The Field Hospital: Former convict thanks parishioners for prison ministry; the questions of parish consolidations; Irish seminarians expected to spend more time in parishes.
The Field Hospital: Louisville meeting on abuse crisis to complement the bishops' in Rome; projects help formerly incarcerated; guidance on becoming a sanctuary church for immigrants.
Updated with details on the funeral and memorial services. Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating, who died Oct. 25, was one of the chief architects of the centering prayer movement and spearheaded formation of the Snowmass Interreligious Conferences.
The Field Hospital: Priest directs house for youth awaiting asylum adjudication; Cor Unum Meal Center serves over two million meals; Kalamazoo Diocese gives facts on credibly accused priest
The Field Hospital: Canadian couple volunteers at prison together; Catholic laughs raise money for homeless; first US-born Hmong-American priest; immigration talk at CLINIC gathering.
At a dinner last year with prominent evangelical Christians in the Blue Room of the White House, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, invited their table mates to discuss the issues most important to them.
The Field Hospital: Students write letters of support to women who placed children for adoption; Parishioners, clergy celebrate Mass with prison inmates; medical student fights against father's deportation