By: By Msgr. Stuart Swetland Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 5 Ezekiel 2:2-5; Psalm 123:1-2,2,3-4; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Mark 6:1-6 My studentsknow that I am fond of saying “sleep is for the weak.” This expression was drilled into me while I was in training at the Naval Academy. Sleep seemed like a luxury then […]
Continue readingMy wife and I have a priest in the family. We’ve “adopted” him. In fact, he’ll be joining us, usually around dinner time, each night for the next year. He just won’t know it. And we are far from alone. Hundreds have already responded to a prayer-for-priests initiative announced last week by the religious community […]
Continue readingBOSTON (CNS) — Just days before a joint partnership between Caritas Christi Health Care and St. Louis-based insurance company Centene Corp. was scheduled to begin, the Archdiocese of Boston announced June 26 that its Caritas Christi Health Care System was relinquishing its membership and equity interests in the venture. The decision to withdraw from the […]
Continue readingBRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CNS) — Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport praised the Connecticut attorney general June 30 for his opinion urging state ethics officials to stop investigating whether the diocese violated state lobbying laws with its efforts to rally Catholics against legislation that would have given laypeople financial control of their parishes. Bishop Lori called […]
Continue readingLONDON (CNS) — British physicians opposed to euthanasia could face discrimination under new medical guidelines on how to treat dying patients, said a Catholic archbishop. Guidelines drafted by the General Medical Council, the regulatory body for the medical profession, were insufficient to protect doctors who believed “passive euthanasia” was morally wrong, said a June 30 […]
Continue readingRating: O (PG-13) NEW YORK (CNS) — The following is a capsule review of a movie recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. A pessimistic New York grouch (Larry David) finds his life transformed when he reluctantly shelters a homeless but irrepressibly cheerful young Southerner (Evan […]
Continue readingSINSINAWA, Wis. — A funeral Mass was celebrated on June 15 in Queen of the Rosary Chapel here for Sister Marie William Cahill, OP, a native of Bradford. She was 98. Sister Marie William died on June 11, 2009, at St. Dominic Villa, Sinsinawa. She was buried in the motherhouse cemetery. The daughter of William […]
Continue readingDUBUQUE, Iowa — There was a funeral Mass on Wednesday, June 24, in the motherhouse chapel of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Sister Georgia Ann (Georgelle) Lange, BVM, a native of Moline who served in the Quad Cities for more than 20 years. Sister Georgia Ann, 79, died on June […]
Continue readingBLOOMINGTON — The Bloomington-Normal Cursillo community is planning its annual family Ultreya for Saturday, July 11, at St. Mary’s Church, 527 W. Jackson St. All Cursillistas and their families are welcome. The evening starts with Mass at 5:30 p.m. A potluck dinner will follow, with the chicken, drinks and place settings provided. Those who attend […]
Continue readingPEORIA HEIGHTS — Sarah K. Johnson hadn’t been at Peoria Notre Dame High School for very long before she found out her life was going to change forever — and not in all the usual ways high school does that. What put Johnson’s life on a radically different course was Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, […]
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