Commentary

October 11, 2018

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

Letter from Cardinal Cupich asking faithful to pray rosary in October for the universal church

Pope Francis is inviting Catholics throughout the world to pray the rosary every day during the Marian month of October. The Holy Father encourages us to join him in this act of solidarity and penance, asking the Mother of God and St. Michael Archangel to protect the church from the devil, who always seeks to separate us from God and from each other.

October 11, 2018

By Father Donald Senior, CP

Oct. 21: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Robert Greenleaf is a guru of modern corporate management. He wrote several widely read books on the qualities of good leadership for heads of corporations and other institutions.

September 19, 2018

By Monsignor Michael M. Boland

The next 100 years

Earlier this month, Catholic Charities officially closed out our year-long centennial celebration at the 101st annual meeting of our board of advisors. This past anniversary year has been an exciting one, giving us an opportunity to look back at our rich history, and enabling us to recommit ourselves to the next century of service to those in need.

October 11, 2018

By Michelle Martin

Snapshots

I cleaned off — and cleaned out — my desk the other week. It was time, or past time. We moved into our current office nearly five years ago, and the accumulated papers, obsolete equipment, books and magazines were enough to more than fill my wastebasket.

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.

September 19, 2018

By Father James F. Keenan, SJ

So what?

I never wanted to teach. In fact, when I was a Jesuit scholastic in formation, I became a community organizer and worked wherever I studied.

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.

September 5, 2018

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Protecting children at the border and in the church

When our son and daughter were little I told them that if we ever got separated — in a park, at a museum, in any public space — they should look for a mother with young children and go to her, because she would keep them safe and know how to reunite us as quickly as possible.

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