Every so often I am asked how I started in photography. The short answer is an unlikely trinity: Dad, “Uncle Walt” and Father Marcel – in that order.
Sincere but less than slick, the low-key, fact-based drama “All Saints” (Sony) celebrates Christian faith and family life. Believers, accordingly, will likely be inclined to overlook its artistic shortcomings.
He had a great empathy for the poor, Sister Marita said. Though many of his flock spoke Spanish, a year or two after he began his missionary work in Santiago Atitlan, he asked to begin training in the Tzutujil language, one of the 21 Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala, so that he could better serve his flock.
Thanks to a partnership with Catholic Charities USA and Ford Motor Company, Catholic Charities in Baltimore, Arlington and Washington and will be able to provide curbside assistance to area homeless and poverty-stricken communities for one week each month.
Not surprisingly, studies show that Catholic schools make a profound difference in the faith-lives of students. Many of the young people who practice their faith, get involved in the Church’s life, help to serve the poor and the needy, and embrace a priestly or religious vocation – many of them are young people you have educated, young people who have graduated from our schools. Never doubt, even on the most difficult day, the importance of what you are doing!
That describes Lynn Thomas and Brian Yeatman, who were married by Father Jeffrey Dauses during 5 p.m. Mass Aug. 19 at St. Andrew by the Bay in Annapolis.
God wants people to live with hope and joy — not bitterness — and to dream with him of a better world, Pope Francis said.
At heart, Jesus accuses the scribes and Pharisees of insincerity and hypocrisy. They are using religion as a means of puffing themselves up, as a means of attaining authority, respect, and prosperity. In the process, they are perverting the understanding of the law – the Torah – which is not merely an interminable list of rules but rather, the true and living Word of God, almost the Lord’s personal intervention by which he sought to shape the lives of the people he had chosen to be his own. The scribes and Pharisees, on the other hand, tried to shape the Torah, to subvert it for their own purposes, thus to aggrandize their own private world.
Last week I told the boys that today would be our pilgrimage day—that we would pick a destination and go pray for a great school year.
“This emergency collection will be used to support the humanitarian and recovery efforts of Catholic Charities USA and to provide pastoral and rebuilding support,” the Archbishop wrote.
The Adorers of the Blood of Christ and other landowners in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have lost their court case to keep a natural gas pipeline from being built on their property.
With floodwater as high as 20 feet from swelling bayous and waterways, thousands of homes in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston flooded as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to batter southeast Texas Aug. 28.
