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Love Your Neighbor
Meet people whose lives Catholic Relief Services transformed
BY JOHN BURGER Celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich grew up in northeastern Italy, in an area that became part of Yugoslavia after World War II. Her family was desperate to escape life under communism. “We had no one. They found a home for us.…
Changing hearts and minds with Catholic theater
BY ELLA HADACEK Catholics are called to reflect the truth and beauty of God in every facet of their lives. St. John Paul II beautifully articulates the role of Catholic artists in his Letter to Artists. With loving regard, the divine Artist…
Memphis’s longest-running soup kitchen feeds souls
by Emily Dagostino Six days a week, Martin Johnson starts his morning at 3 a.m. at St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen in Memphis, Tennessee, with prep work on soup and coffee. By midmorning, the line to the kitchen is snaking out the door of the…
Spirituality on the streets
BY DANIEL P. SMITH Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. (Romans 5:20) Just before 8 p.m. on a wintry Wednesday in Chicago, three words pouring from a police radio seize the attention of Fr. Dan Brandt: infant, unattended,…
Better Way Detroit
by Lori Hadacek Chaplin In May 2018, desiring to help the less fortunate, Fr. Marko Djonovic approached homeless men and women and offered them an hourly wage and lunch to clean up Detroit parks. He felt that exchanging work for pay —…
National Council of Catholic Women – a 100-year anniversary!
by Melanie Rigney They gathered on March 4, 1920, in Washington, D.C., 122 voting delegates who represented all but one diocese in the country along with 57 women’s societies. Together, they formed the National Council of Catholic Women…
Carrying the Cross of same-sex attraction
by Fr. Kyle Schnippel In March 2014, I was transferred from the vocation office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and into a yet-to-be named parish, where the course of my priesthood would be changed in a way I never thought possible.…
Why not be a monk?
BY KEVIN T. DI CAMILLO Perhaps one of the biggest detriments to young men entering the monastic life is the lifelong commitment — that, plus the extremely long time it takes to become a monk. And, of course, the vows of poverty, chastity,…
Faith and the fight against hunger
Claire Babineaux-Fontenot’s goal is to eliminate hunger in America. The Louisiana native is a devout Catholic who brings her faith to her work as CEO of Feeding America, the largest hunger-relief organization in the United States. Catholic…
Faith, friendship, and service
David Rodriguez stopped his car. All evening he and several other volunteers had been driving up and down Southern California streets known for poverty and gang violence. Now, as they approached an abandoned parking lot, they found what…
