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December 30th, 2009
This was the gathering of all the world’s Catholic bishops in the early 1960’s to renew the Catholic Church. It was called by ...
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December 2nd, 2009
The tabernacle is the chamber where leftover Eucharist is reserved for the sick or dying or to be used at a later mass. ...
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October 10th, 2009
When my son was three weeks old, he was admitted to emergency for a life saving operation - pyloric stenosis. The hospital baptized him Catholic prior to surgery. A week later he was able to come home and two weeks later, we had his Baptism at our family parish. Now, many years later, someone mentioned in a class that the 'second' Baptism was not official - that the hospital's Baptism was the 'real' one. How exactly would that work?
I think I can explain what was happening here.
In Catholic belief and practice, baptism is a 'once for all time' sacrament. You only get it once and it is effective forever. No one can ever ...
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July 1st, 2005
Novelist Mary Gordon confronts faith and forgiveness in her new novel
So, do you really have to buy all that stuff for Catholic faith to mean something? I mean, does a person really have to be a believer?
At first, this ...
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August 13th, 2004
The sacraments, the internet and the wisdom of Andy Warhol
Supposedly, Andy Warhol once said that sex and parties were the only two events where you actually had to be there.
For a long time I've been wondering—are sacraments the third?
Virtual JesusIn May of 2004 BH ...
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June 6th, 2004
Mercy and Mourning for My Enemy
I couldn't help it. "Good riddance," I mumbled, as the news came through that Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, had died on Saturday, June 5, ...
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March 6th, 2004
Solidarity As a Tool Against Terror
Spring arrives, and young people's hearts turn to?terrorism.
On screen
It must have been just about the 21st day of March 2004 that I walked into the Columbus Circle subway station, approached a ...
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February 25th, 2004
Long Awaited Catholic Soul-Searching with Mixed Results
The two reports released Friday, February 27, 2004, on sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy are unprecedented in the history of any institution.
When the reports, one conducted by the National Review Board of the U.S. ...
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December 6th, 2003
Catholics and the Complications of U.S. Immigration Policy
"There's so many of them," the septuagenarian remarked to a large gathering of us over dinner that night. "With all the people coming here from everywhere, can New York City really ...
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October 10th, 2003
Non-Hispanic America Realizes Who's Arrived in Town
Times have changed. Have you noticed how different things are today?
As a generic white kid growing up in Southern California, I couldn't help but notice the prejudice local Latino folks endured. ...
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September 11th, 2003
Visiting the 9/11 Memorial at Shanksville, PA
Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ...
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August 29th, 2003
Nothing to Do During the Blackout, New Yorkers Did Well
The power actually browned out—gradually—in our section of midtown Manhattan on August 14 at 4:10 p.m. But before ten full minutes had elapsed, everything was completely gone.
Like for most ...
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August 22nd, 2003
Finding Marguerite's Dream in the Red Rock Desert
Ash Wednesday, 1932
An art student stands on the avenue in New York City in 1932, looking up at the Empire State Building, recently completed.
Most people from around the ...
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July 12th, 2003
The Curious Novel Life of Pi Uncovers Real Faith
Though more than 90% of us in the U.S. say we believe in Him, God may seem no more real to many of us than, say, Arnold Schwarzeneggar?sure, we've seen Him in the movies (Morgan ...
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July 10th, 2003
What W. Said on an Island off Senegal
July 10 -- President Bush is off barnstorming Africa, and there's been no shortage of drama from the very beginning.
On the Tuesday after the Fourth of July, the President of Senegal, Adboulaye Wade, literally took ...
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June 1st, 2003
A Cardinal Complains, a Board Chair Resigns - What Does It All Mean?
JUNE 18, New York - This week the head of the U.S. Catholic Church's National Review Board, former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, resigned suddenly from his post. The National Review Board is charged ...
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May 1st, 2003
Several years ago, after I made a pretty self-righteous remark at a church meeting, I was reproached as having "no right to be so flip for someone so young" (I was 24 at the time, ...
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April 27th, 2003
Learning to Live in the Messy World of Relationships
Recently a certain American Catholic bishop, who shall remain nameless, was characterized by a seasoned priest I know as "a man who loves order more than people."
It certainly wasn't meant as a compliment, but believe ...
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February 26th, 2003
Scripture Reflections for Sundays in Lent
Readings:
Gn 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18
Rm 8:31b-34
Mk 9:2-10
Are you willing to risk everything for love?
This may sound like the refrain of a Celine Dion song, but instead it is the ...
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February 2nd, 2003
Slavery in Our U.S. Catholic Past
The diminuitive, elderly nun took the microphone before our audience of several thousand at the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. As she began, there was a hush: "My grandfather was a slave for the ...
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