A few weeks ago my friend, Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM, Media Director for the US Catholic bishops’ conference, asked me if I would write a blog post for her. The annual national collection the Retirement Fund for Religious was coming up (it was last weekend in many parishes). I had told her about a...
I got a nice surprise today—an email from a man I interviewed for St. Anthony Messenger a few years ago. Sami el-Yousef is from a Christian family that has lived in Jerusalem for generations. After spending some years in the United States, he like many emigrees, decided to move back to Jerusalem to help...
John Feister, editor in chief of St. Anthony Messenger, is in Africa to see firsthand the work of Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
We took a day off after an abrupt change in plans. There was a kidnapping of a Doctors Without Borders group, in a remote, ill-advised location. Medecine Sans Frontieres is prone...
Yesterday we had the honor of welcoming back an old friend, Richard Rohr, OFM. He started his speaking and writing ministry here in our own province of Cincinnati Franciscans, growing a pioneering Christian community of young people, the New Jerusalem Community, in the 1970s.
Along the way, he and Sister Pat...
You can see in the picture here a great moment. It’s St. Anthony Messenger‘s managing editor, Susan Hines-Brigger, receiving the first copy of the new book she wrote, A Catholic Family Advent: Prayers and Activities. That’s Franciscan Media acquisitions editor Mary Carol Kendzia, on the...
