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September 27, 2018

Cathy Majtenyi: Terry Fox reminds us all of need for compassion

Participants begin the Terry Fox run in Canada.

He was exhausted, lonely, in pain and occasionally maligned. But he carried a vision in his head and a love in his heart that kept him going despite the circumstances.

Published in Register Columnists
June 29, 2017

Pope tells new archbishops, cardinals not to be 'armchair Catholics,' but apostles

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., as he stands with archbishops at the conclusion of a Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 29. New archbishops from around the world received their palliums from the pope. The actual imposition of the pallium will take place in the archbishop's archdiocese.

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church's new cardinals and new archbishops must be willing to risk everything, patiently endure evil and bear crosses like Jesus did, Pope Francis said.

Published in Vatican
April 28, 2016

There is always resistance in the Church to surprises of the Spirit

There is always resistance in the Church to surprises of the Spirit

There is always resistance to the surprises of the Spirit, but it’s the Spirit who continues to lead the Church forward. That was Pope Francis’ message at Mass on Thursday at the Santa Marta chapel as he reflected on the reading about division and resistance within the early Church in Jerusalem.

Published in Reflections
March 26, 2015

Christ is key to human freedom

Benjamin West's The Angel at the Tomb of Christ

Resurrection of the Lord — Easter Sunday — (Year B) April 5 (Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18)

One thing was abundantly clear to the first followers of Jesus after the resurrection: it would not be ‘business as usual.’ The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ was not intended to merely add one more religion to the world’s diverse spiritual traditions, but to herald a new stage in humanity’s spiritual evolution.

Published in Fr. Ron Rolheiser