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Conversations with NCR Catholics
… even those who have fallen away" from the institutional church; an "independent voice" -- also lent a further sense of continuity and familiarity to the process. Week after week, I marveled at …
Ring around the cross
… connected to truth-telling." Rock crystal was thought at the time to be petrified ice, which lent it special significance. "As a substance that hovers between these two stages -- liquid and …
Land grab in the Cremisan Valley
… we react and we hope that we will succeed, we will try again and again." The world church had lent considerable support to the fight to protect the Cremisan Valley. In January, a delegation …
The Consistent Ethic of Life & Its Critics
… efforts are, as he says, destructive. Finally, in yesterday’s Washington Post , George Will lent his imprimatur to the assisted suicide movement. He thus abandons all pretence to being a …
Despite poll, Catholic climate leader optimistic 'Laudato Si'' is spreading
… to stewardship, and care for creation and care for the poor with the Advent season. Same with Lent. There’s Earth Day coming up, so there’s lots of opportunities to highlight the need to take …
Taizé today: A ‘new solidarity’
… means taking an option of hope." This would not be the first time the Taizé community has lent its presence to a country where church life is threatened; in the late 80s, for instance, it …
LCWR in Uneasy Peacetime
… causes once espoused by speakers at LCWR conventions to invisibility. The causes it has lent platforms were believed by participants to be extremely germaine to what it means to be …
Oxi: The Greek Vote
… wealthy banks in the rest of Europe. Like a drug dealer cultivating a new client, those banks lent money to Greece in the first place knowing that Greece had not undertaken the kind of …
Contemplating the Reign of God
… Time in the Church. This is the eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Before we had the season of Lent and Easter and Pentecost, we had already begun Ordinary Time and celebrated seven or eight …
Does Romero's beatification signal where Francis is leading the church?
… God was accompanying them in their pilgrimage through history. Romero's final days mirrored Lent and the approach to Holy Week. His last homily, delivered the week before Palm Sunday, the …
Proclaiming jubilee, Francis envisions non-judging, non-condemning church
… initiatives for the holy year, Francis also announces Saturday that during the 2016 season of Lent he will be asking some priests to serve as special "Missionaries of Mercy." The pontiff says …
Tiny resurrections
… Easter is a different experience. As a child, I loved the Easter Triduum. Those days between Lent and Easter were unlike any others. They were filled with incense and action, a quiet …
Killing Christianity
… and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural Anthology and Sacred Silence: Daily Meditations for Lent .] … Editor's note: … We can send you an email alert every time Phyllis Zagano's column, …
Amid the dust of Lent, glimpses of the rising
… from dust. We will be dust again. But not forever, not finally. I spent the last Friday of Lent in a nursing home in Amarillo, Texas, with my last living maternal aunt and my … gardens and plays the piano and organ in her parish church. I will spend the last Saturday of Lent 45 miles south of Amarillo, in Tulia, in the nursing home wing of the county hospital where … that fear and darkness will be banished. The dry bones will rise and dance. In all the dust of Lent, I had glimpses of the rising. My sister came back to us. Our aunt found love again. My …
Driving Jesus this Lenten season
… our travels. Walking back to the car, I pulled out a book that I've been praying with this Lent: The Church of Mercy by Pope Francis. Today's chapter, called "A Culture of Solidarity," …
From prison: Holy Week reflections, and a note to the pope
… a mountain man," Tiza once told me. At the beginning of a 40-day season of atonement called Lent, the priest's message was stark and simple: "Our world is very sick." He asked the women … man"'s humble, direct plea, asking us to focus for forty days on our very sick world. Lent ends today, "Good Friday" is tomorrow. Saturday is the anniversary of our loss of Dr. King, …