Click on the play button below to listen to the podcast: (For part one, click here.) Possible Questions for Discussion: Julian the Apostate said “Christians were making Romans look bad because they were offering charity not just to other Christians, but to non-Christians as well.” This “love-in-action” was a major catalyst in lifting Christianity toContinue reading “On Franciscan Peace, Podcast #3: Bill Schmitt and David Seitz, Part Two”
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On Franciscan Peace, Podcast #2: Bill Schmitt and David Seitz, Part One
Click on the play button below to listen to the podcast: (For part two, click here.) Possible questions for discussion: One of the tools the enemy often uses to further his goals is division. We live in a very divided and polarized society, not only on political and racial fronts, but even within the Catholic ChurchContinue reading “On Franciscan Peace, Podcast #2: Bill Schmitt and David Seitz, Part One”
Churches Awaiting the Joy After Lockdown: Many Happy Returns
As more Catholics resume physical attendance at Mass in areas where governors and bishops have issued policies easing COVID-19 lockdown rules, pastors and parish ministers around the country will carry many concerns with them when they open their church’s doors. Their rigorous attention to practices and protocols, focused on keeping worshipers healthy, will be rightContinue reading “Churches Awaiting the Joy After Lockdown: Many Happy Returns”
On Peaceful Communication
By this point, Catholics listening to Pope Francis’ ongoing messages to the world can feel comfortable that renewing social communication in all its forms, but especially in the digital realm, is one of his priorities. This applies to the Church and the secular sphere, to faith-embracing people and “nons” alike. He spoke about it inContinue reading “On Peaceful Communication”
Let’s Talk About Communicating Better
There’s a second kind of “climate change” happening in our world today — this one in our culture. It generates heat without light through conflict in civil society. It also causes personal pain through the abrasive erosion of the proverbial topsoil that otherwise allows dignity and hope to grow and thrive in a well orderedContinue reading “Let’s Talk About Communicating Better”
Pope Francis: When Distanced, Draw Near
By Bill Schmitt, OFS (from OnWord.net | March 19) Pope Francis has spoken out about our need to draw near to one another. He has done so from Rome, in the heart of a nation well-known for its current reliance on “social distancing”–the medically necessary phenomenon that tames contagions but challenges us in body, mind,Continue reading “Pope Francis: When Distanced, Draw Near”
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