OP/ED
Recommitting our efforts to storm victims
To some folks, the six month anniversary of Superstorm Sandy snuck up on us rather suddenly, prompting many to marvel at how quickly time has passed since the most devastating storm in our history ripped through the region.
Why people go hungry
Prairie farmers eagerly anticipate getting their crops into the ground each spring.
Take a bow for Realfaith TV
Late spring and early summer always bring with them a sense of excitement and anticipation here in the Office of Communications, as our Department of Radio and Television takes on the ambitious and bustling business of preparing a new season of Realfaith TV.
The moral imperative of a living wage
We’re in the homestretch of Christmas preparations, especially in relation to the material expressions of the season – the tree, the decorations, the cookies and the gifts to name but a few. Most family members who haven’t managed to get everything done by this point are likely spending a bit …
'Becoming... a Church that is poor and for the poor'
An intriguing title, this was the theme of the 2014 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering that was held on Feb. 2-5 in Washington. It was inspired by the words of Pope Francis during the inaugural homily of his pontificate on March 14, 2013.
Persisting in prayer for Syria
As a Cold War chill threatens to settle in surrounding developments in the Ukraine, it is the beleaguered, seemingly hopeless Syrian people, who have already paid so dearly in their country’s violent war, who stand to suffer the greatest losses.
So what is this RE:IMAGE Film Festival all about?
Since its debut in 2010, the RE:IMAGE Film Festival has grown substantially in popularity and impact, but there are still lots of folks across the Diocese who haven’t heard about it.
Living with the new adoption law
It is often said that no law is perfect. And, indeed, the newly-signed law in New Jersey giving adoptees and certain others access to the adoptees’ original birth records is not a perfect law.
A film worth seeing, with a million of your friends
It’s a rare occasion when you work for Catholic media that you have an opportunity to interview a film star. Yet that is what happened when some 50 Catholic journalists and communications professionals met with Jim Caviezel this past June during the annual Catholic Media Conference.
Have we reached a boiling point on climate change?
This October marks two years since Superstorm Sandy swept up the East Coast from the Caribbean killing nearly 300 people in seven countries and costing more than $68 billion. Should the same storm arrive 100 years from now, according to a recent report out of North Carolina State University, the …
Extreme inequality exposes need for fairness, justice
In October, Oxfam America launched a global campaign to address extreme inequality. As part of this campaign, Oxfam, a nonprofit organization that works to find solutions to poverty, issued a report that highlights just how extreme global inequality has become.
A picture is worth countless lives
I’ll always remember the first picture I saw of Christopher. I was flipping through my friend’s photo album and suddenly encountered an ultrasound photo slipped loosely between the pages.
Pope puts Church's weight behind effort to rid world of nuclear weapons
Pope Francis, who has already broken new ground in his outreach to a suffering humanity, has put the weight of the Catholic Church behind a new humanitarian movement to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
What can be done for the children?
We all have seen photos in the course of our lifetimes that have moved us to tears, haunted us, and sometimes even changed our behavior and how we thinkof things.
The rest of the story on my interview with Bishop O'Connell
It began with a phone call. My eyes fell on the read-out of my phone console and I did a double take.
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