The sacred and secular meet in a future priest's experience on the battlefield.
Jun pero Serra rsquo s instrumental role in establishing the California missions is well known but the contours of his own life have at times been overshadowed by debates over Spanish colonialism and the mission system As an emblem of the religious and colonial system he established along the Cal
Religious freedom We were against it before we were for it The papacy at one time unreservedly condemned religious freedom as ldquo madness rdquo but now U S bishops condemn any restrictions on it Earning interest on a loan The Vatican condemned this practice then it allowed the idea and s
Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian has been one of the most important and controversial figures in modern Chinese Catholicism Born into a Catholic family in Shanghai in 1916 he was educated by the French Jesuits in that city and became a Jesuit himself living through a tumultuous time in China rsquo s hi
for the night, we decidewe must go nowwhile we can. New York is sinking,we go to Pompei,itself a reminderthat nothing is permanent. Vesuvius erupted yesterday,volcanic ash blanchingthe air above Naples. At the airport, we rent a car,and suddenly we can smellthe sea, feel distended lig
When my oldest son was a little boy he was shopping with my mother and father and saw something on a display shelf that he wanted He said so ldquo I want that I want that rdquo My mother explained that you cannot have everything you want but that we buy what we need He thought about that fo
This Lent try focusing on something often take for granted: water.