Our priest has tested positive for COVID-19 and, while he has said he is starting to feel better and I am very glad to hear that, I am also worried about the exposure to my fellow parishioners. Our parish is full of admirably faithful people, many of whom are elderly and especially vulnerable. We are [...]
Father Bill’s last mass at St. Therese mirrored the man. Casual and unassuming, still pious and profound, the mass and the priest celebrated the joy of genuine faith and sweetly tended friendship. “How do you treat a new pair of shoes?” he asked in his homily. “You break them in patiently. You treat them with [...]
On Saturday, after a relaxing morning of taking her ACT exam, Molly will head over to St. Thomas More Church to be confirmed. She celebrated this Catholic rite of passage by firing off a letter to our pope, encouraging him to consider a more active promotion of gender equity within the global, Catholic community. I [...]
Sunday mass opened with a conch horn, a drum beat and a procession of authentically clad Aztec dancers. The whole extravaganza startled my mom and me in a delightful, this-is-going-to-be-even-cooler-than-we-thought kind of way. Pope St. John Paul II named Our Lady of Guadalupe the Patroness of the Americas 15 years ago, and decreed that every [...]