By Patrick Schmadeke Participants in listening sessions conveyed a mostly positive experience of the diocesan Synod, which sought to hear …Read More
Category: Guest Opinion
The Cosmic Mass: matter matters
By Ella Johnson This series of columns has discussed the Eucharist as a mystery to be celebrated, believed, and lived, …Read More
What happens when we slow down and listen?
By Patrick Schmadeke We hear more when we slow down: birds calling, wind chimes making their music, a weathervane creaking, …Read More
Holding anger in check
An Iowa woman shared on social media how her family had been enjoying an eight-day cruise until day six, when …Read More
Forming ourselves in synodality
(Bishop Zinkula wrote the following column, which appeared on the Catholic News Service website.) “Forming Ourselves in Synodality” is the …Read More
Christian calm in troubled times
By Dr. Tim Millea Nearly 400 years before Christ, Plato lamented the ignorance of his fellow Greeks in understanding the …Read More
EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL: The Eucharist lived out for many
(This column is part of an ongoing series for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Eucharistic Revival initiative.) By Patrick …Read More












