Misunderstanding sin leads the Christian witness astray Are Catholics getting sin all wrong? In 1968, teaching a fourth-grade religion class in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, Father Edward J. Ruetz pinned a $20 bill above the chalkboard and told the class it would go to the student who could name a sin that wasn’t also a […]
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MINO: A Guide to the artwork of the Claretian painter Mino Cerezo Barredo Lecco, Italy. The association community of Via Gaggio in Lecco has created and published with Teka Publishing a guide to the artwork and life of Fr. Mino Cerezo Barredo, CMF. Mino was born in 1932 in Spain and lived until 2005 in Latin […]
Reflection: Luke 9:22-27 The apocrypha of the Acts of St. Peter narrates a story of Peter running away from Rome when faced with increasing persecutions in the city. Peter and some other early Christians decided that it would be best if he left Rome and continued his work elsewhere so that he would escape the […]
Thursday AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Fidelity Brings Life — Time of Penance Faithfulness is not easy except if we are intensely committed to a person we love. If we are loyal, we share in the joys and trials of the other person and we never lose our serenity or basic happiness. This is also […]
Thursday AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY Fidelity Brings Life — Time of Penance Introduction Faithfulness is not easy except if we are intensely committed to a person we love. If we are loyal, we share in the joys and trials of the other person and we never lose our serenity or basic happiness. This is […]
THE LENTEN SEASON: A TIME TO BE ROOTED IN CHRIST The special period of Lent is a particular time of encounter with the Lord in our process of spiritual renewal and rootedness in Christ and the message of the Gospel. Although it is an annually recurrent period, no Lent and Lenten experiences are the same, […]