Ending Racism

Clifford Hennings, OFM August 27, 2023

Reflect “Let Us make man in our image, according to Our Likeness” (Gen 1:26). Sadly, we do not always see each other in this way.

Sunday Soundbite for August 27, 2023

Dan Kroger, OFM August 27, 2023

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle AAugust 27, 2023 This Sunday’s readings have a common element—Davidic keys as a symbol of authority. The reading from

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Where Is Your Treasure?

Monsignor Frank Bognanno August 26, 2023

God’s personal love for you and me cannot stop or be shut off. Like the sun, it’s always beaming down on us.

A Study in Compassion

Kathy Coffey August 26, 2023

Reflect Scientists who study compassion underline and enrich what religious traditions teach. Research at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley,

Sharing the Word for August 26, 2023

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk August 26, 2023

Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time August 26, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 Naomi and Ruth have returned to

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God Is All You Need

Monsignor Frank Bognanno August 25, 2023

When we feel like all we have is God, we discover that God is all we need.

Sharing the Word for August 25, 2023

Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk August 25, 2023

Friday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time August 25, 2023Daily Reading from the USCCB: Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22 Ruth is a story about

People in Raeford, N.C., pray after viewing the body of George Floyd June 6, 2020. Demonstrations continue after a white police officer in Minnesota was caught on a bystander's video May 25 pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, an African American, who was later pronounced dead at a hospital.(CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, Reuters) See FLOYD-PROTESTS-HOMILIES-ROUNDUP June 8, 2020.

Defiantly Catholic

Deacon Art Miller August 25, 2023

Our Church is God’s Church, and we belong to God. Church is the place we go to nurture our faith. It is where we go to be community.

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What If a Pope Becomes Comatose?

Pat McCloskey, OFM August 24, 2023

When I heard that Pope Francis was undergoing surgery requiring general anesthesia, I wondered who would be in charge of the Church while he was incapacitated.