Commentary

December 5, 2018

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

Advent: The season to encounter Christ, the Coming One

One of the most ancient titles of Jesus in the liturgical tradition of the church is He Who Is to Come. It captures the essence of the Resurrection, rightly portraying Jesus not only as someone raised from the dead 2,000 years ago, but as someone who is in our midst, active and bringing about something new in the world.

December 5, 2018

By Father Donald Senior, CP

Dec. 16: Third Sunday of Advent

This third Sunday of Advent is traditionally known as Gaudete or “rejoice” Sunday. It is as if, with most of the Advent season behind us, we are anticipating the joy soon to come. But what is the reason for joy?

November 7, 2018

By Monsignor Michael Boland

Need for affordable housing

At Catholic Charities’ 101st annual meeting of our board of advisers in October, we released a position paper titled “Building Hope: The Need for Affordable Housing.”

December 5, 2018

By Michelle Martin

Bah humbug. (Not really)

This is for all the Christmas grumps.

July 25, 2018

By Bishop Robert Barron

What ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ gets right and wrong

The original “Jurassic Park” film from 25 years ago rather inventively explored a theme that has been prominent in Western culture from the time of the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment — namely, the dangers of an aggressive and arrogant rationalism.

November 20, 2018

By Father James F. Keenan, SJ

A silver lining?

Many people were disappointed when, as the U.S. bishops began their meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12, it was announced that the Vatican instructed them to delay their votes on their response to the abuse crisis until a February meeting of the presidents of the world’s bishops conferences.

April 25, 2018

By Don Wycliff

Writing the script of our lives

I recently attended a workshop on trauma and emotional resilience in children for people who work in the child-welfare system. The keynote speaker kept coming back to one theme: Each of us must write the script of his or her own life.

November 7, 2018

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Love doesn’t end with death

My closest friend and colleague for more than 20 years, Father Bob Beloin, the Catholic chaplain at Yale University, died recently of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

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