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“Dad, I’m going to have to exercise your angel.” “My roommate asked why I believe there’s something out there,” Zinn recalls. “He said, ‘What if there isn’t?’ and I said, ‘Then so be it. But what if there is?’ ” As Smith listened to the snores of thirty men sleeping in...
September 2013 Muchas parroquias y diócesis tienden a centrarse en el desafío que representa la creciente presencia hispana. No es de sorprenderse; previamente una oleada de católicos que llegaban a Estados Unidos fue recibida con igual actitud. Sin embargo, ya en el 2002 el documento Encuentro y misión: un marco...
The board of directors of Liguori Publications has unanimously elected a multimedia journalist as publisher (CEO) and a businessman and priest as president. Virgil Tipton of Richmond Heights, MO, is the new publisher and the Rev. Donald Willard, CSsR., of Whittier, CA, is the new president. The two succeed the Rev. Mathew Kessler, CSsR., who served as both president and publisher for six years. The change is effective July 1, 2013.
"Fr. Mat has served with great distinction and has positioned Liguori Publications well to adapt to the future of publishing," said the Rev. Matt Allman, CSsR, chairman of the board of directors. "We have confidence that Virgil and Fr. Don will expand on that legacy."
Words are important. They’re the building blocks of human relationships. Human beings use words to communicate their very selves. Words open us to the mystery of other people, breaking through human isolation and enabling community. Words are like stones or bricks. At their most positive, words construct the foundations for...
When Pope Benedict XVI surprised the world with his resignation in February, a flood of questions followed, starting with “Can a pope resign?” to “What happens now?” His startling move has sent pastors, parishioners, and reporters back to Church history. There we find a handful of papal resignations, to be sure,...
Promises Made, Promises Delivered When we try to reflect on the Second Vatican Council’s (1962–1965) “promises” to the Church, we cannot help but think of the famous definition that one of the most important theologians of the council, French Dominican Yves Congar (1904–1995) gave to the council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church...
Many years ago my family and I visited the beautiful Basilica of Our Lady of Avioth in France, just across the border from Belgium. This medieval church is believed to house a miraculous statue of Mary. The church is unusually large for the small village in which it dwells, but...