Here’s a wonderful, redolent, crucial part of our Catholic childhoods.
When retired Bishop Walter F Sullivan died this past December countless thousands mourned the loss of a beloved spiritual teacher who had presided over the Diocese of Richmond Va for 29 years The Good Bishop is a fitting tribute to this man who fought for prison reform opposed the death penal
Readers looking for a nice conventional story about serving others and how fulfilling that can be must look elsewhere Jay Sullivan rsquo s Raising Gentle Men Lives at the Orphanage Edge is real and serving others is complicated Sullivan spent two years between undergraduate and law school teach
Part of the excitement in those daily homilies Pope Francis has been delivering is that here is the pope saying things many of us have been saying to one another but have seldom if ever heard from the pulpit or read in the diocesan press On June 20th the pope urged Jesuit journalists to attack hypo
“This was not my first fané,” he wrote.After a meal, our Stephen loved to sailinto the dining room, holding aloftthis last course: ice cream, whipped cream, and meringue.“Its presentation is a jaw-dropper…love to do it for a newcomer.”That night he chose a deeper bowl
As a child I saw the world in peculiar ways as children tend to do influenced partly by the two powerful forces of television and the Bible Growing up in the 1960s I was fairly certain from the movies and TV shows I watched that a good portion of humanity died in quicksand so I was on guard fo
You don’t “make” a retreat. If anything, the retreat makes you.