COLUMNS
A look at why kindness counts
Kindness counts in our relationships, especially those with whom we occasionally find ourselves in minor disagreements or who may be hostile to our ideas.
Good news for crowded churches
Quick reminder for those of us who attend Mass regularly.
Christmas is about what is right
Lately, the news has really weighed me down. It is heartbreaking to see the raging fires in California night after night and take in scenes of ravaged land, smoldering ruins and broken lives.
A different kind of bucket list
What’s still unfinished in your life?Well, there’s always a lot that’s unfinished in everyone’s life. Nothing is ever really finished. Our lives, it seems, are simply interrupted by our dying.
A creche ritual
My 4-year-old granddaughter Charlotte is allowed to play with her family Christmas creche.
Understanding the theology of Christmas
On the Feast of the Incarnation we celebrate almighty God’s decision to become man by assuming the body of a human being.
Keeping the dream alive for Martin Luther King Jr.
"All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again." That's a prophecy from a science fiction show called "Battlestar Galactica," but sometimes I think it might be a prophecy for our world, as well.
My top books for 2015
Taste, as St. Augustine said some 1700 years ago, is subjective. That should be acknowledged upfront whenever someone recommends a reading list.
Discernment begins in the everyday
The cold invigorated my friend and I as we walked quad by quad through campus after an evening Mass.
The bottom line of our being is to follow Jesus
What are you looking to accomplish with your life? For you, what is the bottom line of your existence?
Plan B and some more
As the new year is often the season for making plans, my attention was captured in a gift shop by a plaque that offers the wisdom, "There is no Plan B." I wanted it for my studio (my craft and workspace that I refuse to call an office).
'The Hiding Place'
Suffering a bout of insomnia, I wandered to a book shelf in the middle of the night and selected the Vietnam War memoir, "In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War," by Tobias Wolff.
Seek, find peace
Father Michael Depcik, a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and one of a few deaf priests in the United States, ministers to a flock that is far-flung and vibrant.
What are you giving for Christmas?
As they celebrated their first Christmas in America 150 years ago, our Little Sisters in Baltimore noted that the donations received included “twelve turkeys, four ducks, 16 chickens and so many other good things that we didn’t know what to do with it all!” They concluded, “In this country Christmas …
Outside the city
God, it seems, favors the powerless, the unnoticed, children, babies, outsiders and refugees with no resources or place to go.
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