April 14, 2012 By Terrence Callan Second Sunday of Easter: Acts 4: 32-5; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31 There are times when our circumstances change so radically that we feel our life has come to an end and started over again. And there are times when we wish we could …

April 8, 2012 By Terrence Callan Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; John 20:1-9   Today we celebrate Easter Sunday, the feast of the resurrection of Jesus.  

March 30, 2012 By Terrance Callan Passion Sunday: Isaiah 50:4-7; Philippians 2:6-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 As we begin Holy Week, we focus our attention more and more on the passion and death of Jesus.

March 30, 2012 By Jeanne Hunt Quack! Quack! Quack! As I was rushing to work one Monday morning, life was brought to a sudden halt by traffic: car after car waiting to move; the freeway was frozen. It was a standstill, and there seemed no hope of movement.  

March 30, 2012 By Father Kyle Schnippel In my life as a priest, I often joke that it has been my plight to work with young people,  but their energy and zeal is certainly something that keeps us ‘older’ folks moving! In my work with young people, especially, I have …

March 30, 2012 By Michael Daley On a recent Friday afternoon, with my wife out of town and weather reports of severe storms — even possible tornadoes — to come, I hurried home from work. Having just arrived home from school, my kids were hunkered down in the basement with …

March 30, 2012 By Father Earl Fernandes Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that “God is dead.” The notion that God is dead, or even the mere loss of a sense of God, has a profound impact on values in the world.

March 30, 2012 By Kenneth Gleason Getting children to pay attention at Mass is not easy these days. The Catholic Mass is primarily an adult experience, which does not easily engage the average 21st century child or adolescent.

March 29, 2012 By Stephen Trosley, Editor-in-Chief   Letter writers use newspaper columns to share ideas, to criticize and endorse, to challenge others, to vent their righteous (and sometimes unjustified) anger and to just rant.  

March 29, 2012 Dear Friends in Christ, In late April, our archdiocese will take up the Catholic Relief Services collection.