Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Charles Pope - All of the readings in this Sunday’s Mass speak of human desire. In the first reading, the Israelites in the desert are hungry, so are the people by the lakeside with Jesus in the Gospel reading, and in the Epistle, St. Paul warns of deceitful desires. In all these passages, God teaches us that our desires are ultimately directed to Him, who alone can truly satisfy us. Why is this? Because our desires are infinite, and thus a finite world cannot satisfy them.

By Carmelite Sisters, Integrated Catholic Life - The realization that all things change is a fact of life that often continues to surprise us. We get comfortable, become accustomed to the concentric circles moving around us, perceive our lives to be stable and simply forget that life can change in a moment. Then we find ourselves experiencing an “event” or “something” that shifts our lived reality into a place of uncertainty because “something” has changed, whatever that “something” may be (health status, relationships, death, world events, loss of job, family circumstances, etc.).

By Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - The ribald – and often insightful – 1960s comedian Lenny Bruce once quipped: “Everybody knows which church you’re talking about when you talk about The Church.” The Catholic Church reveals God, and God alone is our Judge. But the Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ, is The Bogeyman for many people... Anti-Catholicism has deep American roots going back to colonial days. In early America, Catholics could not fully practice their faith.