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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Stories: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Stories: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A last assignment - Cathy CollinsI called him August 1st of last summer to say good-bye. It was a call I'd put off for weeks, voicing what three unsent letters wanted to convey. How can one say a final earthly goodbye to a good friend, a former teacher, a magnificent priest, now dying of cancer? Email This Article A Life of Purity - Philip LawlerShe spent her life caring for the sick and dying, yet she could not hide her impatience with the doctors whose efforts only postponed her own death. She was a virgin, yet millions called her Mother. She disdained the limelight, yet people all over the world knew her by a single name. Like all heroes of the Christian faith, Mother Teresa lived a life marked by contradictions, both superficial and profound. The depth of her religious commitment made it impossible for her to fulfill the expectations of a secular society. Email This Article A living prayer of self-sacrifice - George WeigelShortly after Pope John Paul II’s difficult September pilgrimage to Slovakia, I received an e-mail from a Polish friend, a poet and longtime friend of the Pope’s. In language whose insight and sincerity of feeling more than compensated for its deficiencies in grammar, my friend described what he had witnessed: Email This Article A New Pope Must Face Old Problems - George WeigelPope Benedict XVI has celebrated his first Christmas as bishop of Rome, giving his blessing "to the city and the world." His retired brother, a priest and distinguished choir director, came to stay with him; perhaps the Ratzinger brothers played Mozart duets on the Steinway that the piano company recently donated to the papal apartment. Email This Article A Patron Saint for Astronauts - Thomas J. CraughwellPeople are often surprised when the Catholic Church keeps at arm's length phenomena that appear to be supernatural — whether it's weeping statues or apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Email This Article A Pope of Quiet Surprises - George WeigelWhen the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI first appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica this past April, he was smiling broadly - a surprise, perhaps, for those accustomed to the cartoon of Joseph Ratzinger as "God's Rottweiler." Email This Article A Pope’s Love of Writing - Father Raymond de SouzaThis week’s English-language release of Pope Benedict XVI’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth, was a historically unprecedented act — which, given the long history of papal precedents, in saying something. Email This Article A providential gift - Father Raymond J. de SouzaAmongst the thousands of cobblestones in St. Peter’s Square, there is one that is painted red. Email This Article A Sicilian lesson in the complex bond between bishops and saints - John L. Allen Jr.Saints and bishops, as any student of church history knows, often have a curious love/hate relationship. Email This Article A Story of a Mother's Forgiveness - Doug McManamanMy mother was born in 1928, in Nice, France, one year before the arrival of the Great Depression. My great Grandfather arrived in New York from Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s. As a boy he found a job delivering phone books for ten cents a day. I was told that he was a determined man. He worked hard and made his way all the way up to becoming vice-president of AT&T, New York. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: 19-Mar-2008 - 21:37:35
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