Psalm 73: Why Do Sinners Prosper?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
January 25, 2019
“How good God is to the upright,
The Lord, to those who are clean of heart! (Psalm 73)
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What the World Needs from Us
Casey Cole, OFM
January 25, 2019
Francis never wanted anyone to follow him, he wanted them to follow the one he followed. “The Lord has shown me what is mine to do. May he show you what is yours.” In this humility, we realize that it is not our strength, our ingenuity, our love, or our care that is going to shape the world. It is Jesus that the world needs, working through us. The world does not need us. It needs someone who will bring it Jesus. Thank God. Because, really, we could never do anything well on our own. As hard as we try and no matter the intentions we have, the truth of the matter is that sometimes we fail.
Keeping the Civil Rights Movement in Motion
Daniel Imwalle
January 25, 2019
Like holidays or holy seasons, commemorative months such as Black History Month can fall into the trap of becoming purely symbolic, routine, and thus stripped of their power to transform us. We may even find ourselves a bit fatigued by the repetitive cycles of the calendar year.
The Top Five Issues Facing Health Care
Ann M. Augherton
January 25, 2019
A Franciscan friar and medical ethicist, Father Thomas Nairn helps us understand hot-button health care issues and how to address them.
Accepting the Invitation to Lent
Richard Rohr, OFM
January 25, 2019
In Lent, we find both the challenge and the opportunity to look inward, acknowledge our shortcomings, and ask for God’s pardon so that we may more fully embrace our loving Creator.
The Remarkable Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
María Ruiz Scaperlanda
January 25, 2019
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s been featured in Time magazine and on CNN for her humanitarian work, but her faith, not fame, is what fuels her efforts to rescue abducted girls in South Sudan and Uganda.
I Like You’
Susan Hines-Brigger
January 25, 2019
Do you remember when you were younger, and friends used to ask if you “liked ” someone? I mean “liked ” in the sense that you thought that person was cute and more than just a friend. At that stage, liking someone seemed to be the starting point from which loving relationships blossomed.
Then, at some point, the concept of liking someone quit being the go-to emotion anymore. Suddenly, it was all about love and all the warm, fuzzy feelings that entailed. Liking someone wasn’t enough. Love was what it was all about.
Good People Who Died before Jesus
Pat McCloskey, OFM
January 25, 2019
I was taught that prior to Christ’s dying and rising, people (in the Old Testament) could not enter heaven and see God. What about Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and the many holy women in the Old Testament?
You have identified a theological dilemma: how to speak about people who lived before Jesus as being saved without slighting the unique role of his passion, death, and resurrection. The concept of limbo was developed to cover this group of people, plus babies who die before Baptism and ultimately good adults who were never baptized.
Why Does the Church Use Wine?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
January 25, 2019
A number of my Protestant friends who have studied Greek use grape juice at their communion service. Why does the Catholic Church use wine?
The Catholic and Orthodox Churches use wine because the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke indicate that Jesus used “the fruit of the vine ” at the Last Supper. That probably meant wine at least, that is how these Churches understood those texts for almost 1,500 years before the religious ancestors of your friends started to use grape juice.
Staying in God’s Grace
Pat McCloskey, OFM
January 25, 2019
I am gay. What can I do to stay in God’s grace and live a full, happy life as a gay man?
There is only one type of salvation: generously cooperating according to the circumstances of a person’s life with God’s unique gift of salvation through Jesus’ passion, death, and resurrection.