After concluding his talks on the gifts of the Spirit, Pope Francis now takes up the subject of the Church,…
Monthly Archives: June, 2014
The Biblical story of Tobit’s marriage to Sarah, whose previous seven husbands had been slain by demons, has been cleverly…
I was recently reading about an upcoming conference at the Vatican entitled “The Pastoral Project of Evangelii Gaudium” to implement…
“We fear a civil war. If the various different opposing internal parties do not succeed in finding an agreement, then…
A 43 percent rise in doctor-prescribed suicides in Washington State in 2013 was motivated not by pain, but by feared…
Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion(Deuteronomy 8:2-3,14-16; Psalm 147:12-15,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58) Remembering Who We are…
Long, long ago, when Anne’s parents were in college (sorry, mom and dad), demographers made an observation: they saw that…
On Sunday, my children and I celebrated my husband on Father’s Day. It seems natural to celebrate the father of…
I sat on my back, looking up the speckled with color wall at the rock climbing gym. “One more time,”…
The seemingly inevitable march of gay rights in the Americas was slowed last week when an inter-American gathering in Paraguay…