PERSPECTIVES
LENTEN REFLECTION
Stations are not pretty pictures
The Stations of the Cross are many things - but they're not fossils in a museum. The stations are not for spectators.
REFLECTION
Teen's view of a food fast
As a middle-class teen, I never have a worry about whether there will be food on the dinner table or something in the fridge. But many kids and adults around the world do have that worry.
LENTEN REFLECTION
Stop at a station
Lent is the season of the Cross. The Way of the Cross leads to the "why" of the cross.
LENTEN REFLECTION
In His footsteps
The Way of the Cross is one of Catholicism's oldest devotions. Recalling Jesus' Passion and death, the way has had different names: the Stations of the Cross, the "Via Dolorosa" or the "Via Crucis."
PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW
The healthcare mandate and the human person
Consider a more fundamental question: that of freedom. Prior to any particular governmental Constitution or Bill of Rights, all human persons at their core long to be free and are deserving of this benefit, based on their dignity as human persons.
ABORTION
Pondering a pro-choice culture
If Chesterton were alive today, he would undoubtedly regard the solutions to today's vexing social issues as a change in behavior and not recourse to chemicals and mechanical gadgets which eliminate the need for self-discipline.
AMAZING GOD
Pause on the journey
During our Lenten journey, we have traveled a great deal in our Sunday readings and reflections: in the desert, on a mountain and now to the temple in Jerusalem. In our travels, we have reflected on many things and we discovered or re-discovered much.
AMAZING GOD
Step forward in faith this Lent
She had been caring for her father, who had Alzheimer's disease, for many years - most recently, in her own home. The year before, he had gone on vacation with the family, but was so disoriented that, this year, she enlisted the help of her siblings to stay with him …
REFLECTIONS
Stations of the Cross
It's Lent again! It is the season for purple vestments at Mass, for meatless Fridays - and for a special Lenten walk, the Stations of the Cross.
AMAZING GOD
A seed grows within us
As we enter into springtime, the image of the seed, the grain of wheat, appropriately describes both the human cycle of life and our spiritual journey.
LENTEN REFLECTION
His last words
The early Roman martyrs were torn to pieces by wild beasts. St. Sebastian was slain by arrows. St Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Judas Iscariot and the Tyburn martyrs were hung, drawn and quartered. St. Lawrence was burned on a rack. St. Margaret Clitherow was crushed to …
SEMINARIAN'S DIARY
Role-changing: From Mr. V to Father V
Since the 1970s, the Albany Diocese has not had a local seminary, so part of a seminarian's formation experience involves living away from home for four to six years while preparing for the priesthood.
OPINION
A Holy Week reflection
We are in the most sacred week in the Christian calendar: Holy Week, when we commemorate the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
HOLY WEEK
Try the Triduum
German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper said that out of our ability to shout a resounding "yes" to creation, to affirm the goodness of the cosmos, to embrace the length and breadth of our experience in this world, arises the human capacity for festivity.
GOOD FRIDAY REFLECTION
Blood and water flow
On Good Friday, we hear the proclamation of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John. This unique version of the story is filled with details not present in the other three Gospel accounts.
250 X 250 AD
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Events
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