Hope in the Lord — Catholic Extension: Building faith, inspiring hope
byRecently I shared with Extension magazine, the magazine of Catholic Extension, a reflection on my time in East Tennessee and the importance of Catholic…
Editorials & Commentary
An Encouraging Word — Journal-writing is a spiritual practice
byBy Father J. Ronald Knott Write down all these things that have happened to you. Tobit 12:20 I have been keeping journals since I…
An Encouraging Word — The sin of cowardly communication
byWrath and hatred are hateful things. Sirach 27:30 After all these years, approximately 20 years to be precise, I still remember it! I was…
A Time to Speak — Nelson County cares for creation
byJune 2nd was another demonstration that people in Nelson County, Ky., and the surrounding environs do, indeed, care about protecting creation. St. Joseph School…
An Encouraging Word — Spiritual truancy: the ‘Jonah Complex’
byWho am I to do this thing? Exodus 3:11 May and June are months when many of us celebrate anniversaries: marriages, ordinations and graduations….
An Encouraging Word — Compassionate people watching
byFather J. Ronald Knott Show kindness and compassion toward each other. Zechariah 7:9 The ideas for this column come from observing ordinary people going…
An Encouraging Word — On women religious
byFather J. Ronald Knott If this endeavor is of human origin, it will destroy itself. But if it comes from God, you may find…
Hope in the Lord — The Door of Faith — God’s love overflows
byArchbishop Joseph E. Kurtz Last week I was at St. Louis Bertrand Church speaking to a gathering of parents who came together to assist…
Time to Speak — A new look at immigration
by“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Send these, the homeless,…
An Encouraging Word — Sometimes our lives resemble Job’s
byFather J. Ronald Knott Know then that God has dealt unfairly with me. Job 19:6 My mother died of breast cancer 36 years ago…