Like the longer greeting we looked at last time, the shortest greeting the priest can choose for the beginning of the Mass also originates in the Bible. Columnists
I am writing this column on the holiday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It seems like a good time to do a little remembering of the events of the late 1950s and the early...Columnists
“Why start the Mass with a ritual greeting?” we sometimes hear. “This sets a stiff, official tone to the entire celebration. Why not start with an informal...Columnists
Adelfa Callejo lived to give a voice to the voiceless. Her death, after a long battle with cancer, has left a great void in our community. But, because of her, Dallas...
Friday, January 3, 20140141Recently it was announced that our own Pope Francis had been selected from a far-flung field of newsmakers and news-shakers to be the cover person on TIME magazine. One...
The New Catechism of the Catholic Church describes human sexuality as that great and beautiful gift of God which touches the core of the human person in his body and...Columnists
The liturgical calendar designed after the Second Vatican Council has transferred the feast of the Divine Motherhood of Mary from Oct.11 to the first day of the New...Columnists
At Christmas time we like to look at the newborn baby Jesus with the eyes of the heart and try to imagine the unimaginable: the God who holds in his “hand” the more...Columnists
I have been thinking about Ecclesiastes 3 a good bit lately. “There is an appointed time for everything...a time to be born, and a time to die...a time to keep and a...
