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Not your ‘ordinary’ visit
May 11, 2016When I was a kid I would accompany my father to the Archdiocese of Louisville’s annual Corpus Christi procession at Churchill Downs, the site of last week’s 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby. During that summer event, the late Bishop Charles G. Maloney was always far away. The congregation was on the grandstand and bleacher side […]
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Father Daniel Berrigan, advocate for justice, peace, poor, dies at 94
May 9, 2016NEW YORK (CNS)—Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, an early critic of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam who for years challenged the country’s reliance on military might, died April 30. He was 94. The author of several books of poetry and one of the first Catholic priests to receive a federal sentence for peace activism, Father Berrigan […]
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Indulgence for sick, homebound, prisoners
April 29, 2016Those who cannot make a pilgrimage because of age, illness or other barriers may receive the indulgence by living their sickness and suffering “as an experience of closeness with the Lord” in his Passion, death and Resurrection, Pope Francis said. They are encouraged to pray and receive Communion, if possible, or participate in Mass, even […]
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Turnout at vigils for murdered priest testament to his love, commitment
April 29, 2016ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (CNS)—In the days Father Rene Robert was listed as missing, the faithful gathered at two churches for prayer vigils. The turnout became a testament of the love and commitment Father Robert fostered for those he served. Kate Quigley Burns is a longtime friend and fellow advocate for the deaf community, which the […]
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Book reveals pope’s secret spy network during WW II
April 29, 2016“Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler” by Mark Riebling. Basic Books (New York, 2015). 384 pp., $29.99. Who really was Pope Pius XII during World War II? Was he a weak pope, too afraid to speak out publicly against Hitler? Or was he an expert diplomat, calculatingly using his position to help […]
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Goodwin evokes ‘genuine community’ of the ‘50s in ‘Wait Till Next Year’
April 29, 2016And lo, it came to pass that in the 1990s there arose a revived literary genre which ran rampant through book clubs all over the country: the personal memoir. I know this because throughout the decade I facilitated a book club for a group of retired Jewish physicians and their wives, and every other month […]
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All the universe shares in God’s merciful love
April 29, 2016Fifth column in a 13-part series “Indeed, before you the whole universe is like a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook sins for the sake of repentance. For you love all […]
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U.S., Mideast Christian leaders vow to work for peace, increase advocacy
April 29, 2016ATLANTA (CNS)—Christian churches have a responsibility to work to bring the chronic conflict in the Middle East to a just peace, and more effective advocacy is needed in the United States, said church leaders meeting in Atlanta. Nearly 40 heads of Christian churches and church-related organizations in the U.S. and the Holy Land adopted a […]
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‘The Story of God’ ponders life, death and the divine
April 29, 2016NEW YORK (CNS)—Weighty issues of life, death and the divine take center stage in “The Story of God,” an ambitious series now showing on the National Geographic Channel on cable TV. Actor Morgan Freeman serves as narrator and host for this six-part series, produced by Revelations Entertainment. Different cultures and religions are examined for their […]
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Shelter director Katie Bashor finished her race, with love
April 28, 2016ATLANTA—For more than three decades, Katie Bashor lovingly served Atlanta’s homeless at Central Night Shelter, an ecumenical ministry of the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and Central Presbyterian Church. On April 23, friends and loved ones, co-workers and students, former and current shelter guests came to Mass at the Shrine in celebration of Katie’s […]