By now, almost everyone has seen, or at least heard of, the Time magazine cover asking, “Are You Mom Enough?”
Aside from the disturbingly sensational depiction of breastfeeding, the question itself is an intriguing one, and one that gets to the heart of some major social issues in the US.
Too...
How do you receive the Body of Christ? And I don’t just mean in your hand or on your tongue. If you’ve ever paid attention to people as they receive Communion, it seems less than half really understand what they’re doing.
In second grade, one of the things I have never forgotten was how to receive...
If you’ve ever seen the film Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, you might remember a scene when the brothers are walking up the long, tree-lined driveway of the mental institution where Hoffman’s character lives. That beautiful part of the film was shot at the Motherhouse of the...
In what I can only imagine was a gross misunderstanding of the etymology of the term “slap happy,” a Baptist preacher in North Carolina is advising parents to slap the gay right out of their children. He seems to define “gay” as playing dress-up, suffering from wrist palsy, or...
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This past weekend we lost a great friend, 94-year-old Msgr. William H. Shannon. “Bill” was plenty for him—though he was an internationally known writer. He came to write for Franciscan Media in the mid-1990s.
At the time we were planning a parish handout series about the new Catechism of the...
To understand the amazing story of Franciscan Sister Antona Ebo, you need to know something of the Civil Rights Movement. I’m reading a book that my son recommended some time back: Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. It’s called the “definitive account of the civil rights...
