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Hunger USA
Hunger here in the richest nation in the world? Impossible, one might think. But the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ annual Hunger and Homelessness Survey makes it clear that hunger and food insecurity (not always having access to enough food to meet basic needs) not only exist, but are on the rise. The increase is reflected in the fact that the two dozen cities surveyed found that requests for ...
The Promise of Resurrection
For Christians throughout the world the dawn of Easter morning marks the celebration of the triumph of life over death, as we affirm our faith in the resurrection of Jesus. Religious faith is easily caricatured these days, dismissed as a failure of nerve before the ambiguities of real life or, more sobering, is identified with a fanaticism that seeks to assert its dominance over nonbelievers. The ...
New Mission Education Materials From Glenmary
A major commitment of Glenmary Home Missioners is to call young people into mission and to raise awareness of mission need here in the United States. That’s the goal of the new Educate & Inspire: Home Mission Materials From Glenmary, a joint project of Glenmary priests, brothers and sisters. The first materials were released in time for Mission Month (October) 2006 and the latest...
'The Right Thing to Do'
That's how Kevin Flack explained his commitment to integrate his Georgia high-school prom. He was the only active Catholic in his junior class, but he drew support from his parents and his Glenmary mission parish.
23rd Sun [C] 2010
We're hearing a lot of talk these days about “change.” It's been one of the big words in the recent history of our Church and we are hearing about it again with next year’s publication of the 3rd edition of the Roman Missal with its changes. Change is one of the buzzwords in today’s business world. Economists are talking about it a lot. As we all know it's the word “change” that swept Barrack Obama into the presidency of our country. Politicians in the forthcoming November elections tell us that they are going to bring us change, a whole lot of change. And for those of us who pay taxes, small change is that which we will have left over after our politicians get done with taxing us.
22nd Sun [C] 2010
T.S. Eliot was an American-born English poet and playwright, arguably the most important English-language poet of the past century. In one of his most famous plays, The Cocktail Party, he had a major character say: “Half the harm that is done in the in the world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it, because they are absorbed in an endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
California Catholic Lobby Day
Each year California Catholics gather in Sacramento to speak with their elected officials
about issues of concern to the Church. This effort is ...
What Have You Done for Your Marriage Today?
That’s the question the Catholic Church asks in a series of TV and radio spots launched June 27 by the