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The film, “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” well expresses what its title proclaims. Paul’s extreme faithfulness in reflecting the love of Christ is well delineated in this film. In seeing this film, the viewer learns of Christ’s impact upon Paul’s life and learns of Paul’s loving faithfulness to Christ even as he awaits martyrdom as a…
Sexual abuse by those in positons of influence and power continues in this country. Since the first light into such terrible acts was shed upon the Catholic Church more than a decade ago, incidents of sexual abuse of minors — and adults — at institutions of higher learning, the USA Gymnastics team, among Hollywood executives,…
Lifelong Michigan resident and faithful Catholic layman William J. “Bill” Pulte, 85, passed peacefully in his Naples, Fla., winter home on March 7. Pulte’s funeral Mass was March 16 at Holy Name Parish in Birmingham. Pulte, a carpenter who built his first house near Detroit City Airport with five friends in 1950, which they sold…
Humans have five basic aspects: physical vitality, social grouping, cultural identity, self-determination and spiritual transcendence. Each aspect promotes distinct values to accomplish human goals. Consider the Gospel for the second Sunday of Lent, on the Transfiguration of Jesus (Mark 9:2-10). Climbing this high mountain took strenuous vitality. Being selected as one of only three companions…
For me as a lifelong Catholic, there were tidings of great joy, and a clarion-call warning, this holy season. In November, at the start of the Advent season, Pope Francis proclaimed that even the possession of nuclear weapons is to be condemned. His words [my emphasis] at a formal Vatican symposium: “Nor can we fail…
Just three years ago, the first beatification ever to take place on U.S. soil occurred in Newark’s majestic Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. 2,500 people jammed into the Church, the fifth largest Cathedral in the country, to celebrate the raising to the altars of Sr. Miriam Teresa Demjanovich (1921-1927), a native of Bayonne, who…
