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Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Easter Sunday
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for Palm Sunday? Tell about attendance especially … Read More →
Love & Common Sense
Love & Common Sense By Paul Baumann April 17, 2022 I thank my good friend Paul Lakeland for his response to my piece on Margaret Renkl. Although he suggests otherwise, we are in agreement in thinking that the Catholic understanding of sexuality and sexual morality has changed over time. I welcome such change but, unlike […]
Prayer apps are popular, but users cautioned to review privacy policies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the digital world, smartphone users can find apps for just about any purpose: banking, news and information, entertainment, travel, finding a job, self-improvement and, of course, prayer. That includes Catholic prayer. Dozens of Catholic-specific apps exist. They have varying levels of presentation and content. Styles range from a basic offering of […]
Knights say order’s evangelization training program really needed in church
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Leaders of the Knights of Columbus see the Catholic men’s fraternal organization as a powerful engine for evangelization, and to start that engine they are developing a program to train members on how to evangelize. “We think it’s desperately needed in the church,” said Damien O’Connor, vice president of evangelization and faith formation […]
Bishop’s Mass aboard cargo ship brings joy to crew longing for liturgy
ABOARD THE STAR TRUST — Moments after Bishop William E. Koenig of Wilmington, Delaware, completed his first Mass on a refrigerated ocean cargo ship on the Delaware coast, he chatted with a group of Filipino crewmen who were attending Mass together for the first time in months. “What’s your favorite port,” he asked the 20 […]
For Catholic University student, Ukraine war takes a personal toll
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For Lydia Korostelova, Russia’s brutal invasion of her native Ukraine has hit home in ways she could never have imagined. “People are leaving their homes, leaving everything behind,” she said of her hometown of Huliaipole in eastern Ukraine during an April 7 panel discussion at The Catholic University of America in Washington. […]
Days after tabernacle is stolen, donors provide parish fitting replacement
HYDES, Maryland — Days after a tabernacle containing the Eucharist was stolen from a parish near Baltimore, parishioners received some good news when the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur donated one of their tabernacles to the grieving faith community. The replacement tabernacle arrived at St. John the Evangelist Church in Hydes a few hours after […]
Goody bags, cards with messages of hope help spread Easter joy to inmates
SAN FRANCISCO — “Even if you may not know God very well, I can assure you that he loves you very, very much.” These words were written by Ellie, a student participating in the Cards of Mercy project, on a card destined for the San Francisco jails. The Cards of Mercy project, coordinated by the […]
Arizonans help return baptismal vessel to church in Mexico
PRESCOTT, Arizona — More than eight decades after a sacred baptismal font mysteriously disappeared from a historic Catholic church in Caborca, Mexico, two Prescott men were successful in their years-long mission to return the vessel to its rightful home. Along the way, the two men relied on a combination of friendship, diplomacy and persistence to […]