ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Did you know baseball is the first sport mentioned in the Bible? A lot of people don’t believe me when I tell them that, butContinue Reading
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST At a time when the bishops of the United States are faced with a crisis of credibility, it seems fitting that Pope Francis should haveContinue Reading
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “Behold the Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.”Continue Reading
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST If you’re like me, you probably can’t get away from the recent sex abuse scandals plaguing our Church. And, quite frankly, it sucks. When IContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Can you even imagine watching your own child die? Our Mother Mary experienced this, and I cannot imagine the pain she felt as she watchedContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, cares for all his creatures, why does evil exist?” (CCC 309) WhoContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST I was rushing around Rome, looking for a church that should not have been hard to find, and somehow I ended up inside the PantheonContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST One of my favorite words is “compassion” because it means “suffering with.” The concept of suffering touches so deeply into our souls, and the ideaContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST Peter was a fisherman. John was a faithful Jew. Matthew was a tax collector. Before they met Jesus, the Apostles all had a trade thatContinue Reading
RACHEL MILLER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST “Put your work back better than you found it,” I say to the children in my Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS) atrium. I amContinue Reading