A Family for Every Orphan, afamilyforeveryorphan.org, helps orphans find loving families in their home countries. Recently we helped the Zhirov family in Ukraine finalize the adoption of their little boy, Vanya (2). Vanya’s severe medical needs were not fully disclosed at the time of his…
Author: Dana Robinson
Laborless leisure
“The only access to Heaven is the servants’ door” With our dependence on labor-saving devices and DYI (do-it-yourself) technology household ‘help’ today, and therefore service entrances, are a relic of a bygone era. Will the concept of service itself experience a similar fate? The heroic…
Higherarchy
Yes, it is misspelled, just as it is misunderstood. ‘Hierarchy’ derives from the Greek words for ‘sacred’ and ‘order’. With homophonic confusion many think the word refers principally to a ranking system of superiors and inferiors as in military or corporate management. With our democratic…
Avila Institute
Behind every priest is a story of discernment—seeking God’s will and making it a reality. That is a work we are honored to participate in. The High Calling program from the Avila Institute serves dioceses, bishops and future priests by educating and equipping young men…
Saint Augustine Catholic School
Washington, D.C. Saint Augustine Catholic School was founded in 1858 by free men of color and emancipated slaves in Washington, D.C., during a time when this community was worshipping at St. Martin’s Chapel, in the basement of St. Matthew’s Church, which later became St. Matthew’s…
The irrepressible ‘why’
Readers who attended schools where history was taught may remember learning about the so-called ‘dark ages’, the saeculum obscurum, those centuries between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. In what was then a still embryonic Europe civil order had…
Edmundite Missions
Edmundite Missions has been serving the men, women and children living in poverty-stricken communities throughout the Deep South since 1937. Through our ministry, we meet immediate needs by providing food, clothing and shelter for thousands of people. We also exemplify service to solutions by offering…
The leaven of the Gospel
Depending on whether one’s ‘spective’ is ‘pro’ or ‘retro’ sixty years can be either a long or short time. To borrow Oscar Hammerstein’s lyric: “I am of the latter brand”. It seems to me just yesterday when in the early 1960s two giants, both named…
Even the pagans do as much
The question has been addressed by scholars before. My intention is not to answer it but rather to propose its consideration as a Lenten exercise. What is the relationship between orthodoxy and orthopraxy and how present are they today? Does orthodoxy, ‘right belief’, require or…
Franciscan Friars of the Atonement
Headquartered at Graymoor, in Garrison, New York, the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement are a Roman Catholic religious community of priests and brothers with social, ecumenical and pastoral ministries in Unites States, Canada, England, Italy and Japan. Since being founded 120 years ago in 1898…