Focus

• The domestic church in action

  Jun 20, 2014

  When I was a little girl, my family would gather each evening to pray the rosary, not an uncommon tradition in those days.

  

• A global focus on the family

  Jun 20, 2014

  In June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI announced plans to visit Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families in 2015.

  

• Choral music and its place in the liturgy

  Jun 20, 2014

  Contrary to popular belief, active participation in the liturgy was not a concept created by the Second Vatican Council.

  
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  The regrets we can live with

  Jun 20, 2014

  In her recent book, The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd presents us with a deeply conflicted heroine, Sarah, a highly sensitive woman who grows up the daughter of a slave-owner and a child of privilege.

  

• The unemployment rate worries me

  Jun 20, 2014

  In an interview granted with Spanish-language magazine La Vanguardia on June 9, Pope Francis discussed about violence, the Church being poor, the relationships between Jews and Christians as well as Orthodox and Catholics.

  

• Christian faith critical for World Cup star Clint Dempsey

  Jun 18, 2014

  U.S. soccer fans went wild on Monday as team captain Clint Dempsey scored a goal during the first minute of the club’s opening World Cup game against Ghana.

  

• Food For Thought

  Jun 13, 2014

  In February, Pope Francis, in his trademark simplicity, urged the faithful gathered for his weekly audience to attend Mass on Sundays.

  

• Why call the Mass a celebration?

  Jun 13, 2014

  A Mass is not called a celebration only when it gives rise to happiness in the people of God. Still, that might be one good reason to consider it a celebration.

  

• Sunday Mass, more than an obligation

  Jun 13, 2014

  I recently heard someone ask the question: Why do we have to go for Mass? I don't think I’d heard that question since I was a child, when someone was whining, begging to stay home.

  
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  Wearied in our patience

  Jun 13, 2014

  Thirty years ago, before the airline hijackings of September 11, 2001, before the shoe-bomber and others like him, it was simpler to travel by air.