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Recognizing when it’s time to embrace weakness

In college, Shannon K. Evans joined a charismatic evangelical community. She met her husband Eric through that church, and they moved to Indonesia to become missionaries, ...
Offer up your COVID-19 sacrifices for the forgotten

As we watched the COVID-19 pandemic multiply throughout the country, I saw my Facebook account explode ...
Love in the time of Covid-19

In 1985, Nobel Prize winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published a novel entitled, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
A Lenten response to COVID-19

After visiting Philadelphia's spring flower show, my daughter and her 5-year-old were returning home on the commuter train.
Our Christian calling and social distancing

The advent of the novel coronavirus has set into motion so many unprecedented actions and effects that it's hard to keep track or make sense of them.
A crisis that may be an opportunity

Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” said former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
The power of persistence

In the Gospel of Luke, Christ tells the story of a man awakened in the middle of the night by his friend.
Father Koch: Water is the source of all life in this world and the next

Water is more than the origin of life, it is the principal make-up of life as we know it.
Lent as a time for embraces

Over time, certain passages of Scripture reach beyond the realm of the sacred to find a place in our culture’s lexicon of colloquial expressions.
Inspiration is everywhere!

It was probably not more than a few hours after the last bus returned from the Diocesan Youth Conference ...
Integrity: To whom does it matter?

On Fat Tuesday, I gave a talk titled, "Business as a Force for Good." A gentleman from the back haltingly raised a question, "What would you do when all your competitors cheat?"
‘Joyful momentum’ can happen when two or more are gathered

There comes a moment when something clicks. A connection is made, and a gathering turns into a group, taking on a life of its own.
Lent as an invitation to practicing solidarity

Lent is a most beautiful season for spiritual renewal. Lent is a time to reflect about our journey of faith ...
Father Koch: Temptation to sin often grows from the desire to sin itself

As we begin the Lenten Season, we are drawn to focus on our on-going need for conversion.
Stop comparing yourself to others

With the prevalence of social media, Peggy Weber knows it’s easy to compare ourselves with other people’s picture perfect lives – and find our own lives lacking.
Jump right in!

Last year, I was asked to speak at several conferences and was blessed to meet many Catholics with disabilities throughout the United States.
When work can be a force for great good or great evil

As a Catholic writer whose faith frames so much of what is written, I sometimes lose my bearings, usually when I have let anger or frustration get the better of me, or when I have been neglectful of my prayer life.
The grace around us

The writer Annie Dillard said, "You catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall." Am I stingy about receiving grace, I wondered after a shopping trip.
Speaking with authority

Everywhere we hear people say: “That’s just talk! That’s nothing but empty words!”
Bringing light to the darkness of who we are meant to be

Years ago, while visiting upstate New York, my husband thought it would be a great family outing to visit some wind caves.
Celebrating Black History Month

During my time at Aquinas High School in La Crosse, I was privileged to have a young Sister Thea Bowman as a teacher.
Online and in print, Catholic press reports on a very active Church

Catholic Press Month reminds us of our mission – to deliver authentic Catholic-based news and perspective to our diocesan community.
The gift of St. Valentine’s Day

Many people associate this month with great happiness and joy due to the Feast of St. Valentine on Feb. 14.
What does it mean to be big-hearted, magnanimous?

Once during a baseball game in high school an umpire made very unfair call against our team.
What world are we creating with our words?

Words have a unique power to heal and to comfort, to inspire and to teach. They also serve to damage, to plant seeds of evil and incite to hatred.

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