June 1, 2012 By Bonnie Mack “The family exists at the heart of all societies. It is the first and most basic community to which every person belongs. There is nothing more fundamental to our vitality as a society and as a Church. For, in the words of John Paul …

May 11, 2012 By Sister Betty Jane Lillie, SC   Sixth Sunday of Easter: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17   The Christian message spread fairly quickly after the Pentecost event.

May 1, 2012 By Father Earl Fernandes They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken …

May 1, 2012 By Michael Daley On a daily basis I encounter them — disturbing, startling, discomforting, angering, humorous, ironic, sarcastic, irreverent, damning, uplifting, and insightful words and images. Though you may be led to think that I’m referring to the newspaper, television, books, or a billboard as the source, …

May 1, 2012 By Jeanne Hunt The Gospel for the Feast of the Ascension is for go-getters — not for lazy believers with lead-feet disease. In this Gospel reading the angels offer us the timeless question, “Why do you stand here looking into the sky?” In other words, they prod …

May 1, 2012 By Father Kyle Schnippel There are so many wonderful things that we celebrate during the Easter season, it is so difficult to pick out different memories or thoughts and keep them from blending into one seamless fabric of thoughts.

May 1, 2012 By Sean Reynolds “The State of our Unions” is the title of a December 2011 research report from the National Marriage Project of the Institute for American Values and the University of Virginia. The researchers set out to answer these three questions: “Is it emotionally easier to …

April 30, 2012 By Stephen Trosley They were publically humiliated, stripped of their property, imprisoned, tortured and dragged into the arena to be savaged by wild animals. Some were crucified and others were tested by fire. Those who survived were treated as outcasts.

April 27, 2012 By Sister Betty Jane Lillie, SC   Fifth Sunday of Easter: Acts 9:26-31; Psalm 22: 26-27, 28, 30, 31-32; 1 John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8 The readings for this week focus on the early church and explicate the themes that drew the community’s life together in the resurrected …

By Terrance Callan   Third Sunday of Easter: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; 1 John 2:1-5; Luke 24: 35-46 Often we find ourselves completely unable to solve a problem or understand a situation. If we then arrive at a solution somehow, we may feel as if the sun has broken through the …