Three priests and 11 deacons: that’s how many clergymen were at a recent funeral. With all the coronavirus restrictions, the congregation was, apart from the many watching the livestreamed Mass, relatively small. So the number […]
On July 11, 2020, dignitaries, parishioners, new seminarians, a number of diocesan employees, and eight religious sisters occupied pews at the Basilica of St. Peter in Columbia. The occasion, as noted in the July 16 Catholic […]
Some years ago my brother Steve was sent on overseas jaunts to create text for promotional brochures for his then-employer, a travel agency. Several of them allowed for side trips into less inhabited areas, along with […]
To say that recent months have been stressful and strange would surprise no one. For those of us in ministerial roles, the unthinkable has happened: We’ve been called to provide service with minimal physical presence […]
In this column I will be telling, in brief, the tale of two men — and more. One of the masterpieces painted by Henry Ossawa Tanner is my all-time favorite depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary. […]
Black Lives Matter is the voice that has been dominating the news for the past few weeks. Not only on the matter of systemic racism, but on the disproportionate number of African Americans being affected […]
When Sister Philomena tried to wrap the minds of second-graders around the concept of the Blessed Trinity, she used an egg. There’s the white, the yolk, and the shell, she explained, but it’s all one […]
Sometimes imagining how the hundreds of groups which call themselves Christian might ever come together is as challenging as spilling out 1,000 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and asking a family which has never done […]
We’ve been hearing some dire warnings about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in the fall and winter. We have also heard about the likely slowness of economic recovery, which can mean continued unemployment, closing of […]
It’s been hard not to feel as though we’ve all been transported to an edgy fantasyland or a slightly earth-like but yet unearthly planet. When we do our calculated forays to the grocery store, everyone there […]
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