Teaching Editorial – Spirituality of creation
byThis series of teaching editorials focuses on Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ ” (“On Care of Our Common Home”). Howard Baum was a man…
Editorials & Commentary
An Encouraging Word – The sane center
byGood sense brings favor. The shrewd always act prudently. Proverbs 13:15,16 There were many strengths and weaknesses about my old-fashioned religious upbringing, but I…
An Encouraging Word – To live in the moment
byDo not deprive yourself of good things in the present. Sirach 14:14 “Waiting for the mail” is a torture that has run like a…
Teaching Editorial – We have met the enemy
byThis series of teaching editorials focuses on Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ ” (On Care for Our Common Home). Since 1970, people around the…
An Encouraging Word – Out of sight, out of mind
byCan anything good come out of Nazareth? John 1:46 Because of my own rural roots and because of my first three assignments (Somerset, Monticello…
Teaching Editorial – Our moral call
byThis series of teaching editorials focuses on Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’ ” (On Care for Our Common Home). At the time of the…
Hope in the Lord — Receive ashes humbly
byA little smudge of dirt on the forehead has great attraction in our age! Almost magnetically people come to church on Ash Wednesday. Rivaling…
An Encouraging Word – Why not?
byHere comes that master dreamer! Genesis 37:19 Robert F. Kennedy once said: “There are those that look at things the way they are and…
A Time to Speak — A view from the pew
byBy Gary Montgomery It hit me while I was working on a presentation for St. James Parish Mission in Elizabethtown, Ky. Father. Martin Linebach…
An Encouraging Word – Growing the church: Part II
byLast week, I talked about the various groups that priests are called to lead spiritually: Faithful Catholics who are the backbone of the parish,…