Thomas P Sweetser S J has written a readable helpful follow-up to his The Parish as Covenant Keeping the Covenant Taking Parish to the Next Level builds on his foundational theology and spirituality of parish as articulated in the previous book but adds to that vision many new practical ste
For Christians Easter Sunday is the most important day on the calendar We believe that the resurrection of Jesus has changed everything The special Easter word is Hallelujah from two Hebrew words that mean Praise the Lord and it expresses the joy and happiness we should feel even if we are un
Pictures at a Revolution One pauses before assigning too much significance to the voting patterns of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After all, this is the estimable organization that deemed Doctor Dolittle worthy of a Best Picture nomination in 1967. Yet sometimes the academys choi
One challenge for readers of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light, the collection of Blessed Teresa of Calcuttas letters, is to distinguish among the terms darkness, dryness, desolation, doubt, disbelief, depression and despair - the seven Ds.
Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Mosul Kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq on Feb. 29, and killed the three people who were traveling with him. Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews that Mosul’