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Blog - Posts from 2016
Nov 8, 2016, 2:00 PM
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Milwaukee Journal)
Catholic Worker cooks have to be creative in the kitchen. They prepare large meals on small budgets and donated food…
Nov 7, 2016, 2:18 PM
We are in our last few days before the presidential elections. The previous months have been filled with speeches, debates and campaign ads. Our natural reaction, in the face of incivility and personal attacks by candidates from both parties, may be…
Nov 3, 2016, 1:00 PM
Protesters carry a globe-shaped balloon in front of Rome's Colosseum during a Nov. 29 rally, the day before the start of the U.N. climate change conference in Paris. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)
This year something special…
Nov 1, 2016, 1:00 PM
Egan and Teresa, ca. 1970s. Catholic Relief Services was instrumental in aiding and spreading Teresa’s mission and message across the world. American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives.
Saint Teresa of Kolkata…
Oct 31, 2016, 12:36 PM
The picture of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year old boy, who washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach last year after drowning along with eleven others including his mother and brother as they tried to escape war-torn Syria, alerted the world to the…
Oct 27, 2016, 2:00 PM
Omar Gutierrez, manager of the Office of Missions and Justice, Archdiocese of Omaha
Recently, I was speaking with a friend who is involved with politics. We were talking about the election, and he told me one of his biggest frustrations is the…
Oct 25, 2016, 2:00 PM
Catholics know that every person is made in the image of God. Everyone is due our respect and our love. We’re called to care especially for those who most need our welcome, including newcomers to our country. Because the Church in America has…
Oct 21, 2016, 2:47 PM
“‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, … [He] has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; …to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, … to proclaim the year of the Lord’s…
Oct 18, 2016, 1:20 PM
I have mixed feelings when I see new construction in residential neighborhoods. I’m a curious passerby and I like to watch the slow progress of the heavy equipment preparing the foundation and moving girders into place. I’m excited (and…
Oct 12, 2016, 4:04 PM
“The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.”
— Psalm 67:7
Koubra Mahamat Abakar, 44 years old, harvests fresh fruit and vegetables in her community garden based in Kournan village, Chad. Photo by…
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