Confirmation: What’s a Parent to Do?
Kathy Coffey
May 14, 2020
The girls wobble unsteadily on new heels; the boys in their suits look awkward as colts.
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The Catholic Roots of St. Valentine’s Day
Susan Hines-Brigger
May 14, 2020
Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop Saint Valentine’s Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts.
Franciscan Friars Vote to Unify
OSV News
May 14, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Voicing their support for the revitalization of Franciscan life in the United States, six provinces of the Order of Friars Minor have voted to form one new organization.
On May 30, the friars of each of the six provinces voted at meetings in their communities to support the formation of one new organization. It will comprise the almost 1,000 Catholic Franciscan friars belonging to the existing provinces – both brothers and priests – and will be headquartered in a yet-to-be determined location.
From Widow’s Grief to New Life
Elizabeth Bookser Barkley, PhD
May 14, 2020
Mired in grief over the loss of her husband, this college professor found a kindred spirit in another widow: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton.
50 Hours with God
Kathryn Begnaud
May 14, 2020
To speak of death aloud would have been a betrayal to our mother. Instead, by way of tacit agreement, an unspoken understanding developed among us an agreement that occasionally prompted us to make secretive and worried eye contact in a way that neither Mom nor Dad would detect.
The Way of the Cross…on Your Block!
Harry Langdon
May 14, 2020
The Holy Spirit inspired me to combine spiritual meditation with physical exercise by envisioning the Stations of the Cross in my neighborhood. I walk approximately 10 blocks with stops at places that suggest the 14 locations associated with the Passion of Jesus.
Hagia Sophia: A Rich and Holy History
Virginia Ann Froehle, RSM
May 14, 2020
Hagia Sophia is one of the four largest domed buildings in the world and it radiated Catholic celebration for 900 years. Yet most American Catholics were unaware of its existence until Pope Benedict XVI visited it on November 30, 2006.
Catholics among Mormons
Carol Ann Morrow
May 14, 2020
What is it like to be Catholic in a land settled and populated mostly by Latter-day Saints? Special challenges to the Catholic community develop special strengths, agree Salt Lake City Catholics in interviews with St. Anthony Messenger.
Understanding Annulments
John T. Catoir, J.C.D
May 14, 2020
My heart goes out to the many good people who have suffered the tragic breakup of their marriage. I would advise anyone in such a situation not to be afraid of the Church’s rules and regulations.