FR. RON ROLHEISER, omi

One of the wonderful features of young children is their emotional honesty. They don’t hide their feeling or wants. They have no subtlety.

JOHN CONNELLY

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 28, 2012

We live in uncertain times. We are uncertain about the economy, our security and our future. The First World confidence we once felt is evaporating slowly but surely.

All of the preliminaries were now over and the Second Vatican Council got down to business. But what business would that be? Of the 70 schema (proposed documents), the council fathers had seen only seven. Of those seven, by far the most important were those on divine revelation and on the liturgy.

GORDON SELF

Is it time to get mad?" The question was posed during a recent multispecialty rounds at Covenant Health.

SR. LOUISE ZDUNICH, NDC

You mentioned the creative arts in a previous response, what does Scripture say and what has been the Church's history in relation to the creative arts?

Already facing a shortage of priests, the Catholic Church in the world’s newest nation has closed a portion of its seminary, leaving dozens of young men stranded on the road to the priesthood.

Jesus was not born “once upon a time” as in a fable, but in a historically verifiable place and moment that were detailed accurately in the Gospel of Luke, Pope Benedict writes in the third volume of his work, Jesus of Nazareth.

He doesn’t exactly advertise it, but the “king of Queens” is a Catholic family man.

Franciscans ministering in a village along the Syrian border with Turkey said four people, including three Christian youths, were kidnapped and beaten before being released as the civil war surged in their community.

Same-sex “marriage” is not an extension of marriage rights but a dismantling of an institution on which the well-being of societies depend, wrote an Australian archbishop.