“What happened with Peter that Friday? The fisher of men left everything to follow Jesus … but, at this definitive moment of their last Passover together, Peter swiftly turned his back on Jesus.”
Mary Marrocco: Where do you stand on Good Friday?
Kristi Anderson: ‘Lord, make me an instrument of your peace …’
How can we be instruments of peace in this weary world?
Inside the Capitol: Bishops meet with state leaders to advocate for families, the poor
Minnesota’s bishops also joined a coalition of faith leaders from Minnesota’s Jewish, Muslim and Protestant communities to express opposition to the legalization of commercial sports gambling.
How to work for mercy at home
This Lent, what corporal work of mercy could you practice at home?
Christina Capecchi: Writing in the attic — the Catholic call to creativity
Sometimes, the first step of creativity is the hardest: slowing down and looking up.
Katie Prejean McGrady: Think you’re ‘failing’ at Lent? Think again.
“If there’s effort at all — even if we think it’s measly or small — we are acknowledging that these 40 days are set apart in our year to more fully pay attention to the Lord’s movement in our lives.”
Inside the Capitol: MCC supports bills upholding proper roles of parents, schools
As heated debates occur within school board meetings and state legislative hearings about the respective roles of parents and teachers in public education, the Minnesota Catholic Conference is supporting various legislative efforts to protect parental rights in education.
Greg Erlandson: What kind of Christian do others think we are?
A survey, released March 9 and conducted by the Episcopal Church, asked all sorts of Christians what their impression was of other Christians. And it asked nonbelievers what they thought of Christians as well.