George Swanson Starling spent most of his adult life in Harlem working as a train porter but the Black American had been raised in the racially segregated South picking fruit for pennies an hour in Florida groves Like many of us George had envisioned a very different life than the one he got

The Pope has lashed out at world hunger and commodity markets which drive up the price of food for those in need nbsp This excerpt is taken from The Compass My thoughts turn toward the situation of millions of children who are the first victims of this tragedy condemned to an early death or t

The second reading for the Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Romans 8 9 11-13 speaks of the Spirit-Flesh antithesis yet nbsp it is difficult not to see the specter of Mind-Body dualism hovering over the passage which always winds up as bad news for the body The passage as found in the lectio

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy for president using the same backdrop that Ronald Reagan once chose New York rsquo s Statue of Liberty Michelle Bachmann emphasized her roots in the hometown of her childhood Waterloo Iowa proving yet ag

For the Solemnity of St Peter and St Paul I wanted to write about a man who puts the fear of God in you while he encourages you I have always loved the Apostle Paul even though he scares me a little when I read his letters since I fear he might step off of the page sit me down on the bench nbs

It is almost too much to comprehend the ways in which the Body and Blood of Christ are present and real to us and nourish us We have a type of this heavenly food in the manna in the desert which Deuteronomy 8 3 says is food nbsp ldquo which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted in ord