Wednesday, April 29, 2009

By Scott Mussari

Certain things in our world are so prevalent and so present to us that oftentimes our eyes simply overlook them. These objects blend into the background; we’re desensitized to their impact. The beauty of a blue sky, the look on the face of a loved one, the fresh bloom of a spring lily — those are a mere sampling of the things we frequently and too easily take for granted, so they fail to affect us.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

By Terrance Callan

Fourth Sunday of Easter (B): Acts 4:8-12; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18

During the Easter Season we focus our attention on the death and resurrection of Jesus as the means of our salvation. We do the same thing every time we celebrate the Eucharist any time during the year.

Although the idea that we have been saved by Jesus’ death and resurrection is very familiar to us, we can always grow in our understanding of it.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

By Father Rob Waller

Do you remember the Lone Ranger? Who was always with him? Exactly! Tonto. Apparently, the Masked Man was not really a lone ranger. He had a faithful, human companion. Even with his silver bullets to protect him and his white stallion on which to ride into danger and to ride into the sunset, he needed a human at his side to help him right wrongs and to protect his back.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

By Sister Carol Gaeke, O.P.

“God made man is His own image and man has returned the compliment,” quipped the French philosopher Voltaire. This tongue-in-cheek line reveals two sides of the Easter mystery. On one is the belief in God becoming human and then being taken back up into the divinity at the Resurrection. The other side says that Resurrection is political dynamite.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

In a March meeting at the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, told bishops from 82 countries that as the Catholic Church works to become more present in new digital media, it also must help teach people to be ethical communicators. Ethical formation is crucial, he said, especially now that the world of communication is crossing new “frontiers that are in need of serious ethical grounding.” Helen Osman, communications secretary for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said many of the bishops at the seminar saw a need to develop a “theology of communications.”
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

By Father Timothy P. Schehr

Acts 4:32-35; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31

This Sunday the apostle Thomas takes his famous misstep in faith. He needs absolute proof before he will believe his brother apostles have seen the Lord. It is a disappointing stance from someone who spent so much time with the Lord. He had even seen Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead!

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

By Christie Hadley

Christianity has always been a part of my life, but I knew I was searching for something deeper, something more — something to bring me closer to God. I found that something in the Catholic Church, and in a few days I will stand in front of the congregation at St. Gabriel Parish in Glendale and be confirmed.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

By Father Kyle Schnippel

One saint stands out in a particular way among parish priests. Known for his own personal holiness, his doggedness in completing seminary and his dedication to time in the confessional, St. John Marie Vianney, the Curé of Ars, is called upon to provide patronage and guidance for all parish priests of today.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

By Father Timothy P. Schehr

Acts 10:34-43; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; John 20:1-9

John’s Easter Gospel is remarkable for its simplicity and its silence. John lets us discover the wonderful truth of the Lord’s victory over death by letting us see it for ourselves as we follow in the steps of the very first witnesses.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

We believe that the local Cincinnati Fox affiliate, Fox 19, and the station’s general manager Bill Lanesey, are worthy of special praise at this time. After cringing through commercials in the last few weeks that promoted the “Osbournes Reloaded,” we cannot help but believe that most local residents think that Lanesey took a high road when he decided not to air the new “variety” show in its scheduled primetime timeslot.

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