Fruits of Our Faith My fervent prayer is that more parish priests will have the courage to preach Sunday sermons like the recent reflection by Barbara Reid, O.P., on the Holy Family (The Word, 12/22). Sister Reid used biblical scholarship to contrast the theology of retribution found in the wisdom l
Pope Benedict XVI is often considered to favor a “hermeneutics of continuity” in his interpretation of Vatican II, and careless commentators have used that term to describe his view. Instead, he calls it the “hermeneutics of reform.”
The largest migration in human history has nothing to do with barbarian tribes the slave trade or Ellis Island It is the movement of 130 million Chinese who starting in the late 1970s have poured out of rural China into the cities No one person could adequately analyze or summarize this tremend
Margaret Trost was a well-to-do American successful in business happily married with a healthy son Then in the late 1990s her husband died suddenly and unexpectedly In her grief she decided on impulse to go to Haiti with a group of faith-based social justice activists ldquo I was invited to