My Franciscan schooling in Malaysia is one of the building blocks of my Catholic faith that I most cherish, next to everything I learned from my mother’s example. Both the Franciscan nuns, and my mother, had little time for blind…
My Franciscan schooling in Malaysia is one of the building blocks of my Catholic faith that I most cherish, next to everything I learned from my mother’s example. Both the Franciscan nuns, and my mother, had little time for blind…
The Bishops are concerned about the need to step up the evangelizing. They wonder why Catholics appear to be falling away in greater numbers than ever from the institutional church. Maybe it’s a wardrobe issue? It’s hard to stand with…
Free. Of the stultifying pronouncements of clergy at the highest levels far removed from the lives of people on the ground. Free. Of the biases of tradition that have their roots, not in the Gospels but in the circles of…