When people escape their native country due to violence, suffering and such, they are referred to as refugees. That is, they are in another country...
Last Saturday I had a unique experience, and at my age not many things that I do are new. I was invited by the Methodists...
This is a homily based on the Scripture readings for Sunday, June 22. There is so much conversation about newly-released infantryman Bowe Bergdahl because there...
It’s been almost three weeks since the Paulist General Assembly. The Paulist Fathers get together every four years to decide the direction of the community...
Many Catholics have a bit of Quaker in them. Quakers reject external religious authority in favor of some inner light dwelling in each soul. Many...
The following is a homily based on the Scripture readings for Sunday, June15. There was a lot of controversy about the Michael Jackson Hologram performance...
By Pat Kaminski, special to the Paulist blog Landings coordinator, Jacksonville, Ark. As a Landings coordinator and a returnee, it saddens me that often...
Taking off on Pope Francis’ urging “to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them …...
Now and again I leave a social event because of what I call a “trigger.” This is memory being awakened to a past way of...
Pope Francis has done it again, and as usual done it on the world stage. Last Sunday in Jerusalem, he urged the president of Palestine...
On Pope Francis’ return trip from World Youth Day in Brazil to Rome, he was asked about people who are gay. As he concluded his...
Popeye, the cartoon, was a normal person with human weaknesses. Then there would be a crisis. The crisis or threat seemed to be winning. Then...