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January 19, 2012

Ordeal strengthens faith of Mount de Sales teacher

The epiphany came around Thanksgiving. Colleen McDowell had reason to take stock. Her 2009 had been buffeted by a bout with cancer that had tested more than her physical health, shaking her independence, her routine and her self-admitted vanity.
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January 19, 2012

Nation’s economic woes have effect on society and church in 2009

WASHINGTON – Times, as they say, are tough all over. And the economic troubles that have beset the United States, and much of the rest of the world, as a persistent recession reached its second anniversary also have touched the church.
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January 19, 2012

Marian House provides haven for women

At 15, Cynthia was doing drugs and looking to escape her Baltimore City home. She said her mother was physically abusive, and that many of her own romantic relationships involved mental abuse.
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January 19, 2012

FBI report says religion not exempt from being target of hate crimes

WASHINGTON – According to a recent FBI report, religious groups are not exempt from being targets of hatred.
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January 19, 2012

The Bethlehem difference

The New Testament reading that began this Advent season, from Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians, was filled with the tension between the “now” and the “not yet” of the two comings of the Messiah – a tension that was evidently an issue for the early church, and ought to be for us.
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January 19, 2012

On this Christmas, cast out fear

Christmas is a life choice between love and fear.
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January 19, 2012

The ultimate Christmas gift: celebrating life

The moment I uttered the words I knew they sounded silly: “What do you get the girl who has everything?”
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January 19, 2012

Emmanuel – God with us – pierces the darkness

“Rise up in splendor. Your light has come.” The words of the prophet Isaiah foretell of the coming of the Messiah. We welcome his coming.
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January 19, 2012

‘Make room’ for cultural diversity this season

More than 2,000 years ago there was a family that was searching for a place to give birth to the Son of Man. In their journey for finding a place to be hospice they came across many obstacles. The major obstacle was that of communion, of finding a place of empathy, of trust and of...
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January 19, 2012

Giving jobless a voice at the White House

Each year for weeks in advance of it, my Jesuit Volunteer assistant and I go out into the streets with clip boards and sign up jobseekers for the all day job fair we hold on the holiday that commemorates Martin Luther King’s birthday. We hear hard-luck stories, voices of frustration and amazing words of hope...
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January 19, 2012

Find the true Christmas spirit

In this Christmas Eve edition of The Catholic Review – the last of the year – I offer these Christmas-related “Thoughts on our Church,” with sincere gratitude to you, good readers, for tending this weekly column and for your faithful witness and dedicated service to our Church.
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January 19, 2012

Australian nun hopes 2010 canonization inspires young to help poor

PERTH, Australia – A member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart hopes the 2010 canonization of her order’s founder, Blessed Mary MacKillop, will encourage young people to act radically to help the poor.
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