“Be careful you don’t spill that on your clothes,” my husband warned my son one time when he was dyeing Easter eggs.
Category: Columns
‘Why does seminary take so long?’
Those who are accustomed to praying for our seminarians on the vocations poster will notice a few small changes in next year’s poster.
Human life and dignity focus in the Catholic Herald
The Catholic Herald staff does a remarkable job, and articles on human life and dignity are in every issue of the newspaper.
The Knights and baseball
Since their founding, the Knights of Columbus have had connections with baseball, especially with the New York Yankees. Fr. Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, was apparently a good baseball player.
Easter offers believers hope to begin again
In Connecticut, one of my older classmates took delight in asking younger seminarians what was the most important feast in the Catholic Church. If they replied Christmas, he would look at them as if he were deeply shocked.
Dying to oneself is a sign of growing up
Usually exhaustion consumes me by Friday night.
Mama told me (not to come)
Jelly beans in the 1970s were sturdy and dry, their rainbow colors missing blue and disappointingly studded with somber white and black.
Lent helps us see with Jesus’ eyes
At my uncle’s funeral, before he began his homily, the priest removed his glasses. Then he laughed and stated, “Without my glasses, I see you indistinctly. When I wear my glasses, I can see your faces and your good looks!”
The importance of solidarity with our Into the Deep strategic plan
We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world.