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Chicago native Bishop Robert Barron is named bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop John M. Quinn of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, and named as his successor Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles.

Our Lady of Fatima and a theological reading of history

On May 14 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady to a group of shepherd children near the Portuguese town of Fatima. The series of Fatima appearances — lasting from May until October of 1917 — is one of the most extraordinary in the history of the church. It has also beguiled political and cultural commentators outside the ambit of the church, and it is this wider implication that I would like to explore.

Jackie and the priest

Somehow I managed to miss the film “Jackie” during the Christmas season, but I watched it, twice, on recent long flights to and from the East Coast. Like many others, I was struck by its moody, more “European” style, the high quality of the acting, especially on the part of Natalie Portman, and its historical verisimilitude, but what particularly impressed (and surprised) me were the scenes between Mrs. Kennedy and a sympathetic priest.

Branagh’s very Christian ‘Cinderella’

Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” is the most surprising Hollywood movie of the year so far. I say t...

Stephen Fry, Job, and Cross of Jesus

The British writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry is featured in a YouTube video which has gone...

Word on Fire

I write these words on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton, one of the greatest spiritual writers of the 20th century and a man who had a decisive influence on me and my vocation to the priesthood.

Ridley Scott and missing the point of the Book of Exodus

Ridley Scott’s film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” features Moses, the Pharaoh, hundreds of thousands o...

Revisiting the argument from desire

One of the classical demonstrations of God’s existence is the so-called argument from desire.

Who will fill these shoes?

When Father Gary Graf, a Chicago priest, was pastor at Holy Family Parish in Waukegan, he donated a portion of his own liver to a parishioner, who was the father of a large family and in danger of death.

Interpreting a puzzling parable

The attendance at Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. Many of the students had gone home while others were on a special tour of Chicago churches. The celebrant and preacher for the Sunday Mass was Father Robert Schoenstene, our veteran Old Testament professor. Schoenstene offered the best interpretation I’ve ever heard of a particularly puzzling parable of the Lord, and I wanted to make sure his reading got a wider audience.
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