To the editor:
It is extremely encouraging for a layperson like me to hear from a medical expert like Dr. Michael Robiolio that “there is never a need for an abortion even in these cases.” The cases referred to in the guest column, “Catholic physician’s perspective on the health care debate,” in the March 25 issue of the Catholic Herald, are rape, incest, and threat to the mother’s life.
To the editor:
The abortion issue is only one part of a complex Culture of Death equation masterminded by liberal minds and aimed at putting “mother earth” ahead of man, created in the image and likeness of God. So the news about the latest battle for government-run health care would imply.
A broader scrutiny reveals, however, that there is another part of this equation, possibly even more despicable than abortion, a discussion which was unfortunately missed in the health care debate. It is aimed at building a foundation for the “ultimate solution.”
A great conductor rehearsed a choir for a performance of the Messiah. The chorus sang through to the part where the soprano sings, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives.”
Her singing was flawless: perfect phrasing, pitch, enunciation, and all of the singing qualities that I wish I had. When she finished, the choir waited eagerly for the applause that would surely follow.
Instead, the conductor glared at the soloist and growled, “My dear, you do not really believe that your Redeemer lives, do you?”
Carolyn Gordon Tate, a major figure in the literary renaissance of the 20th century American South, once wrote Flannery O’Connor of the impact that her conversion to Catholicism had had on her writing.
As Miss O’Connor recalled in a letter, “Mrs. Tate told me that after she became a Catholic she felt she could use her eyes and accept what she saw for the first time, she didn’t have to make a new universe for each book but could take the one she found.”
Catholicism, Carolyn Gordon Tate recognized, was realism. Catholicism means seeing things as they are. Catholicism means finding within the grittiness of reality the path God is taking through history for the salvation of the world. Lent is a good time to be reminded of these truths.
The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus that we read during the Easter season is one of my favorites. I often wonder if I would have recognized the Lord walking the path with me. Hopefully I would, but, like the disciples, I may have not.
During these Sundays after Easter the Scripture readings tell of several appearances Jesus made to the disciples after his resurrection and how the faith of his followers (like Thomas) was challenged and deepened.
Today the resurrected Jesus is all around us in our daily lives. He is present in the persons we encounter. It is up to us to recognize him.
The story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus that we read during the Easter season is one of my favorites. I often wonder if I would have recognized the Lord walking the path with me. Hopefully I would, but, like the disciples, I may have not.
During these Sundays after Easter the Scripture readings tell of several appearances Jesus made to the disciples after his resurrection and how the faith of his followers (like Thomas) was challenged and deepened.
Today the resurrected Jesus is all around us in our daily lives. He is present in the persons we encounter. It is up to us to recognize him.
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Quiero desearles a todos un Santo Triduo Pascual y una muy feliz Pascua. Que sea un tiempo gozoso y de oración para ustedes, sus familias y que les proporcione una fuerte experiencia del Señor Jesús, resucitado de entre los muertos.
Estamos llamados, todos y cada día, a invitar a las personas a conocer a Jesucristo, resucitado de entre los muertos. De manera muy real, esta es la misión de mi Episcopado aquí: es la misión establecida de mi personal y, por extensión, es verdaderamente la misión de cada uno de nosotros aquí y en los 11 condados de la zona sur-central de Wisconsin.
Para invitar creíblemente a nuestro prójimo a conocer a Jesucristo, resucitado de entre los muertos, tenemos que haberLo conocido. Así que estos días de Semana Santa y Pascua tienen que ser un tiempo especial para cada uno de nosotros, en el que estamos llamados a intensificar ese encuentro al que estamos llamados con Cristo resucitado. La adecuada celebración de la Semana Santa y la Pascua tiene todo que ver con la misión a la que cada uno de nosotros, por la naturaleza de nuestro Bautismo, está llamado.
To the editor: […]
To the editor: […]
ALBANY/BRODHEAD/MONROE — Tom LaPointe, a parishioner of St. Patrick Parish, Albany, returned from Haiti on December 22, 2009, after a two-week trip there. He had brought with him tools and soccer balls to share with the people.
