'Dignitas' and the mediaRussell Shaw
By now it should be clear that when the Church issues a document addressing several topics, one of which is sex, our major secular media will ignore the rest and concentrate on sex. The latest example ...
Is this synodality? Russell Shaw
A surprisingly large number of priests are said to have lately been replying "no thanks" when invited to become bishops. If that's so, it may help explain why Pope Francis, responding to discussions ...
Holy Week and EasterRussell Shaw
Holy Week and Easter bring with them liturgies of great beauty and solemnity suitable to the momentous significance of the events they recall. That significance is of course redemption. And for assistance ...
Two new abortion cases Russell Shaw
Come right down to it, the argument is simple to the point of being self-evident: a human embryo is either a human person or well along in the process of becoming one. In either case, the embryo enjoys ...
Eucharistic RevivalRussell Shaw
A New York Times/CBS poll some years ago found that two out of three adult American Catholics didn't believe that at Mass the consecrated bread and wine truly became Jesus' body and blood. Instead, ...
Ash Wednesday and Lent Russell Shaw
It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men, old and young, office and construction workers, corporate lawyers, police officers, messengers, and many others cut short ...
Making a Covid RetreatRussell Shaw
My recent experience of a COVID-induced quarantine during my first bout with this highly unpleasant disease got me thinking that, along with other purposes, the experience might be God's way of giving ...
What it means to bless someone or something Russell Shaw
Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll's fantasy "Through the Looking Glass" and makes this famous assertion: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more ...
