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Not failing, but changing: US Catholic life in a new era
… quarters on the top floor of the villa, Sister Sally can see stretched out below, a meadow, tree lines, and in the distance the red roofs of the massive motherhouse, a marker of an earlier …
Early evacuation in India spares more than 1 million from deadly cyclone
… decades, the archbishop told ucanews.com that winds had destroyed thatched houses and downed trees, utility poles and telecommunication networks. Fr. Purushottam Nayak, archdiocesan …
Rising with Jesus at Eucharist
… tells her parents to give her something to eat (Luke 8:55). Zacchaeus is called down from the tree (the cross Jesus will ascend to take his place), and he and Jesus dine together to celebrate …
Turn it upside down
… I might ruin it. They ask for the teacher's critique, and she gently suggests, "Maybe the tree could use a couple more branches; you have too much space over here. The composition's out …
House of Charity in Mumbai provides family to those with disabilities
… of Charity, an Italian order that manages the Marian House of Charity, hidden away among trees at the dead end of Versova, a remote suburb of Mumbai, India's commercial capital. The …
Calmly plotting the resurrection
… to get them in just before the ground freezes hard and just after the leaves are all off the trees. You are likely cold as you plant the bulbs. If you're not, the bulbs are going to rise …
Easter Sunday
… healed the oppressed, Peter went on to say that “they” put him to death by hanging him on a tree. What Peter takes pains to talk about in detail is the fact that God raised Jesus on the …
Holy Week services go on in Paris despite Notre Dame fire
… that burned so quickly, only to hear critics say France no longer had such massive oak trees to match the originals. Jean-Michel Wilmotte, the star architect who designed the Russian …
Dancing with the stars
… that are ours through the grace of baptism. Now our shame becomes our glory on this holy tree. Now the reign of death is ended. Now we are set free. —Dan Schutte, "Join in the Dance" The …
Your thoughts on Holy Spirit atheism and armchair theologians
… life emerges only after great destruction. Come, fire of the Holy Spirit, destroy the dead tree of clericalism and power structures, so that the seeds of new life may be released into the …
The rituals of the Triduum
… some physical showing of what we hold dear. And it seems what we hold dear is this cross, the tree of paradise, the instrument of torture, the tree of life, the vine. What on earth does it mean that people in this most powerful of nations …
New York City brownstone is home to 15 millennial Catholics
… framed group photos of Fordies past, mostly in red holiday sweaters in front of a Christmas tree. When Ford Hall opened in 1974, the headline of a New York Times article announced "22 …
Young Leaders for Peace teach us to make room for difference
… Islamic Center in Minnesota; First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs in Texas; and Tree of Life Congregation in a Pennsylvania synagogue. Consider the recent terrorist attacks in …
In new book, Richard Rohr says the 'universal Christ' changes everything
… in his surroundings, whether natural or human-made. He points out the white blossoms of a pear tree and the adobe buildings — some of them centuries old — common to Albuquerque's …
California officials lead with the 'faith that does justice'
… brown Jesus who lived by fig and olive trees. As I continue to contemplate these moments in the light of Pope Francis' call and prayer …
Pope to visit Africa in September, Vatican announces
… the pope is pictured on a background showing a dry landscape adorned with the local baobab tree and the native ravenala plant. It reflects in part how the nation has been a land of …
Patient God, urgent message
… holy, we must acknowledge that this warning is both serious and sacred. The parable of the fig tree that Jesus tells carries an important message. God is looking for fruitfulness from us in …
Convert now, don't be spiritually lazy, pope says
… the midday Angelus prayer. In his Angelus address, the pope focused on the parable of the fig tree from the day's Gospel reading. In the story, a landowner wants to chop down a fig tree that has borne no fruit in three years, but the gardener persuades him to allow him to fertilize it and give the tree another year. "The landowner symbolizes God the father and the gardener is the image of …
Mary inspires, assists those seeking their vocation, pope says
… House. He venerated the statue of Our Lady of Loreto, which in 1922 was carved out of cedar trees from the Vatican Gardens to copy the 14th-century figure destroyed in a fire. He then …
Third Sunday of Lent
… wickedness. To follow up and reframe the theme, Jesus wove a parable about an unfruitful fig tree. Everyone in his audience knew the prodigious potential of fig trees: A new plant should bear fruit in two years, and then can often be harvested twice a year. … well calls us to conversion. If the Cycle C readings are used, the Gospel parable of the fig tree does the same. Build on whichever readings are utilized Sunday or perhaps use the opposite …