by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
“Sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” That’s a counsel from the Book of Lamentations and, while perhaps not the best response to the recent revelations of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in the Roman Catholic Church, it seems the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 13, 2014 | News
Hispanic Americans’ religious affiliation is changing. Though Hispanics are still predominantly Catholic, 24 percent have now converted from Catholicism, according to a new Pew Research report. While Pew noted a shift in religious affiliation over the past...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 22, 2013 | Opinion
Fifty years ago, Kay Cronin, wrote a book titled “Cross in the Wilderness,” chronicling how, in 1847, a small band of Oblate missionaries came from France to the American Pacific Northwest and, after some bitter setbacks in Washington state and Oregon,...
by Robert Parham | Mar 19, 2013 | Opinion
The election of Pope Francis was surely God-inspired. He is the right man in the fullness of time – a doctrinal conservative and a social progressive. Early news reports disclose a man of humor and humility. Upon his election, he joked with the cardinals about their...
by Daniel Carro | Mar 15, 2013 | Opinion
I am neither a journalist, nor a prophet. But since Pope Francis comes from Argentina and I’m an Argentinean, it seems that I should have something to say. Jason Horowitz wrote in The Washington Post: “The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church broke...
