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Hospice as a blessing for a family
Looking back more than three years, I would call them angels of mercy. At the time, as they sat at our dining room table, I probably thought of them more as messengers of death.
A heart filled with God is a home for prayer
When my adult son, a father of two young sons, posted a Facebook photo of a little hand trying to push under a bathroom door and the photo title was “They Will Find You,” I laughed out loud.
Looking for the holy in supernatural events
Have you ever had an out-of-body-experience? Hundreds of books have been written about it going back centuries.
Can't travel to explore your faith? Try a virtual pilgrimage
Last year, a group of parishioners and our pastor embarked on an enviously intriguing pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, and along the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, in Spain, and then went on to Fatima, Portugal.
How does faith intersect with disability?
That man in a wheelchair just off the Wal-Mart parking lot? The one cadging spare change from passersby? He's disabled.
Becoming a nation of service
America could become a service nation if we had the will to revive civilian national service.
World Meeting of Families opens with high hopes in the face of global and local challenges
For a long weekend in August 1993, Denver was the center of the Catholic world. World Youth Day brought hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to central Colorado to visit with now-St. Pope John Paul II, culminating in Mass with a half-million attendees at a state park.
Elders are called to pass on the music of our faith
On a Christmas morning, long ago, my son gave me a gift I had long desired – an Irish flute.
Invited to the canonization Mass!
I was thrilled to learn I would be one of the people from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to attend the Sept. 23 Mass outside Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception where Pope Francis would canonize Blessed Junipero Serra.
Pope Francis: a model ministry
It is an experience like no other to meet the pope, with whom I exchanged warm greetings of peace and fellowship on behalf of the Jewish community.
About this labor of love ...
Journalists and Communications staff working on behalf of the Diocese of Trenton in Philadelphia last week to cover the World Meeting of Families and Papal Visit racked up an impressive collection of statistics: Dozens of interviews and stories filed; thousands of photographs taken, hours of video shot and scores of …
Innocence, complexity and sanctity
Some years ago, I officiated at a wedding. As the officiating priest, I was invited to the reception and dance that followed upon the church service.
Finding God in a day's work
Sometimes you can find inspiration for prayer in surprising places.
Unpacking the unforgettable
By Maureen Pratt |Catholic News Service Unpacking and then arriving home from a long trip can be very unpleasant. Waiting at home are dirty laundry, stacks of unopened mail, a resentful pet, dying plants. Welcome home.
Respecting life the Gospel way
For the sake of our salvation, we need to pay serious attention, and act with purpose, to what Jesus teaches here in Matthew’s Gospel: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will …
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