The Catholic World articles from May 1994

The Catholic World archives from May 1994

Taking on a Catholic Identity
May 1, 1994... The process of preparing a young man to become a priest involves a long and carefully orchestrated series of new learnings. As I reflectback on my eight years of seminary formation, I am able to understand many things about how a person takes on...

A woman's elegy. (poem)
May 1, 1994... Dreaming, I wandered from the country lane And there I found beyond a grove of trees A graveyard tended only by the bees, Remembered only by the sun and rain. Here blanketed by vines or leafy briars Slept those who loved and laughed long...

Like Migrating Birds: Longing to Return
May 1, 1994... "When inactive Catholics return . . . they bring with them a Catholic identify that is a significant part of how they see themselves." An inactive Catholic may know more about Catholic identify than anyone else. Ask Faith, who was told many...

Sunday into Monday: A Catholic Perspective on Business Activity
May 1, 1994... Ed Willock, editor of the long - defunct Catholic monthly Integrity, tried to bother his readers (or, more accurately, encourage his readers to bother others) with this verse: "Mr. Business went to Mass,/He never missed a Sunday;/But Mr....

Catholic Identity Goes to College
May 1, 1994... About sixty students and faculty members have been meeting with the college chaplains to plan an interfaith memorial service for a popular biology professor who has died after a long struggle with cancer. After we pick some appropriate readings...

Youth Ministry: Redefining "Catholic Identity." (Catholic Identity: Its Meaning, Its Roots)
May 1, 1994... I'd like to address the question of the "Catholic identity" of the young people in the church in the United States. We need to begin by distinguishing this identity from religious identity and even Christian identity. Tillich describes religion...

Finding Catholic Identity in Family Rituals
May 1, 1994... The unexpected death of my grandmother Julie before Christmas, when I was fifteen years old, was the moment when I recognized the importance of family rituals in my life. It happened at her three-room apartment where we had all gathered for...

The Parish Church: Shaping Our Catholic Identity
May 1, 1994... One bright Sunday morning I was standing at the front door of the church I pastor, greeting the parishioners as they arrived for Mass. I was preoccupied with the kinds of things most pastors are preoccupied about: there was a leak in the roof;...

The Believer as Citizen: John Courtney Murray in a New Context.
May 1, 1994... To fit "a square peg in a round hole," is a hoary cliche dating from 1870 at least, says A Dictionary of Cliches. Sometimes, however, its image is appropriate for contemporary purposes. Similarly, the effort to "square the circle" is a...

Religious Liberty: Catholic Struggles with Pluralism.
May 1, 1994... One consequence of the momentous changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council is how unfamiliar previously predominant patterns of thought and argument now sometimes seem. Undoubtedly, one of the Council's greatest changes - both in...

Some Notes on Summer Reading
May 1, 1994... As spring lurches into summer many journals tell their readers what books are most attractive as companions for those putative lazy days ahead of us. The presumption is, of course, that summer brings leisure and people will want to do more than...

Generous Lives: American Catholic Women Today.
May 1, 1994... Oral history projects have been an ongoing concern for individuals and communities for a long time now. Although not strictly speaking an oral history project, Jane Redmont's Generous Lives: American Catholic Women Today tunes her readers in...