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Contents
Cover Story 10 Looking Immigration Right in the Eye: The Church understands that a simple solution to the crisis does not exist, Jim Graves Features 7 Forgiveness: Poem, Bonnie LeMelle Abadie 15 The Freedom of Forgiveness: A couple helped “boat people” find peace, Joy McCuen 16 Sister’s Lessons: Cardinal Tobin’s...
Staying Spiritually Connected
The Covid-19 virus has demonstrated an ability to transcend man-made boundaries and barriers that exist in our fragile global community. It reminds us of humanity’s interconnection; even at the same time we’re practicing “social distancing.” Prayer—especially during this Lenten season—also helps keep us interconnected through challenging times. The Redemptorists and...
St. Clement Hofbauer
A Model Evangelist, a Life of Struggle These encouraging words from a man with a complicated story can inspire and guide us if we let them. Saint Clement Hofbauer spoke them more than 200 years ago, and the truth in them is as fresh today as they were then. How...
Liguorian Shines in 2016 Awards Season
Editors Note: Each year, the Catholic Press Association puts out a call for entries of books, newspapers, magazines, and other publications to its Catholic Press Awards program. The awards honor the accomplishments of Catholic journalists and publishers and affirm their commitment to spreading the Good News. For Liguori, they affirm...
2016 Catholic Press Awards
Liguori Publications is the proud publisher of award-winning Catholic books and Liguorian magazine. 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers (ACP) Excellence in Publishing Awards Finalists Liguori Inspirational Books Family, the Church, and the Real World, a Redemptorist Pastoral Publication The Catholic Drinkie’s Guide to Homebrewed Evangelism by Sarah Vabulas Liguori Children’s...
An Interview With Father Henri Nouwen
An Interview With Father Henri Nouwen By: ALICIA VON STAMWITZ Liguorian, October 1992 Henri Nouwen is a Dutch priest who has lived in North America since 1971. He is an internationally acclaimed speaker, and spiritual writer with over thirty published books, including The Wounded Healer, Genesee Diary, and, most recently,...
A Place of Escape and Encounter
Editor Elizabeth Herzing interviews Fr. Greg Wiest, CSsR, a retreat leader at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, AZ on the history of Desert Mothers and Fathers and how the concept of desert spirituality can enhance our spiritual growth.Q Give a brief history of “desert spirituality.” Q Give a brief...
Living the Second Half of Life
By: Kathleen Fischer November 1999 One of the most remarkable changes in our society is that we are living much longer than earlier generations. In 1900, life expectancy at birth was less than 50 years, but a girl born today can expect to live to age 79, and a boy...
Confessions From a Stepmother’s Heart
By Lisa Grey As a child, I loved playing “mommy” to my dolls. I couldn’t wait to grow up and have my own children. Years later, my dreams of being a mom became tarnished. It happened when I realized that I found my eldest stepchild to be, well, challenging to...
From the Publisher
Written by Virgil Tipton I don’t remember the name of the book, but an image from it seared itself into my memory sometime in my childhood. The book was a children’s Bible, and the illustration documents the moment when an angel boots Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden....
Shining the Light of God on Top of the World
Written by Jeanne Conte The brightness of Norway’s people glows at the Arctic Circle, where Catholicism grows. How does the light of God shine in the northernmost Catholic Church in the world, St. Michael Catholic Church, which rises high within the Arctic Circle of Norway? It shines brightly indeed, this...
Full Circle: Hispanics and U.S. Catholicism
Written by Timothy Matovina Many parishes and dioceses tend to focus on the challenges presented by the growing Hispanic presence. This is not surprising; a previous influx of Catholic newcomers to the United States was met with a similar attitude. Yet in the 2002 document Encuentro and Mission: A Renewed...
The Truth About Grudges
Written by William Rabior, ACSW September 2013 Teresa harbors a grudge against a physician in her small town. For many years he treated Teresa’s father for high blood pressure. When her dad died suddenly of a stroke, Teresa accused the doctor of not monitoring his blood pressure closely enough. Her...
Liguorian Celebrates Its First Hundred Years!
Written by Editor 1913-2013 In honor of our first centennial, we want to honor our readers—our Liguorian family. You’re the reason we publish this magazine, and you’re uppermost in our minds as we plan each issue and develop each article. We want to say thank you for 100 years of...
Hispanos y el catolicismo en Estados Unidos
Written by Timothy Matovina 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:...
Moments With God
Written by Editor The February 2014 issue of Liguorian focuses on spiritual nourishment. Often we feel as if we simply don’t have the time to nourish ourselves spiritually. But there is a way: In Moments With God, Jacquelyn Graham suggests we turn waiting into praying: “Sometimes waiting is a mere...