Commentary

September 6, 2017

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

A milestone worth celebrating

Anniversaries often mark milestones, and that surely is the case as we celebrate 125 years of Chicago Catholic. Originally called The New World, it was named for the World’s Columbian Exposition held in 1892-1898, dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the new world.

September 7, 2017

By Father Donald Senior, CP

Sept. 17: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Since my family is Irish, can I get away with a slightly risky Irish ethnic joke? You have probably heard it: “What is Irish Alzheimer’s? Answer: Forgetting everything but the grudges.” That is my segue into this Sunday’s Gospel selection, a very pointed parable about forgiveness.

August 9, 2017

By Monsignor Michael Boland

Helping our refugees

As our nation contemplates narrowing the doors of opportunity for refugees in the United States, Catholic Charities has opened wide the doors to a new, much larger and more vibrant office space for our Refugee Resettlement Program.

September 6, 2017

By Michelle Martin

Road tripping

Travel broadens the mind, or so I’ve been told. It doesn’t always feel that way when you have two parents and three kids confined to an aluminum can hurtling down the highway, with nothing to distract you for hours but the occasional rest stop.

August 23, 2017

By Bishop Robert Barron

The church on the edge of the world

Even though I lived in France for three years while doing my doctoral studies, I never managed a visit to Mont Saint-Michel, the mysterious, mystical and hauntingly photogenic abbey situated on a promontory just off the Normandy coast between Caen and St. Malo. But recently, in connection with the filming for my Pivotal Players series, my team and I made the pilgrimage.

September 6, 2017

By Father James F. Keenan, SJ

Teaching theology in India

I am getting ready to leave India. I arrived here on July 31. First I went to teach moral theology in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India.

August 23, 2017

By Don Wycliff

To move forward, look back

“Don’t look back; something might be gaining on you,” the great pitcher and baseball wit Satchel Paige famously said. Whether he intended to or not, Paige captured in that quip a key facet of the American character: a skepticism about reflection, introspection and self-examination. Americans are, by attitude, an anti-historical lot who have preferred to look ahead — to the next horizon, the next piece of open or cleared territory, the next potential enterprise. Look back and something — an uneasy conscience, an inconvenient memory of an historical wrong — might overtake you.

July 30, 2017

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Embracing dialogue, advancing the commonweal

For the first time in 100 years, Catholic bishops in the United States hosted a national convocation of lay, religious and ordained leaders to explore and celebrate new and effective ways to promote the joy of the Gospel and form missionary disciples.

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