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…
Author: Dana Robinson
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…
Potomac Community Resources
Potomac Community Resources, Inc. (PCR) is an award-winning nonprofit organization that promotes the full inclusion of persons with developmental differences and intellectual disabilities into all aspects of community life. PCR fulfills our mission by providing 35 innovative, therapeutic, social, recreational and respite care programs for…
An echo of the future
In St. John’s Gospel, Nathaniel asks Philip if any good can come out of Nazareth. Would his twenty-first century counterpart express the same sentiment about the Big Apple? If so, a contemporary Philip would likely reply with enthusiasm: “Come and see”. We are invited to…
Hope House Ministries
The Mission of Hope House Ministries is founded in the spirit of St. Louis de Montfort, who had a commitment to the poor and the courage to do what no one else had the courage to do. This is our mission: To provide compassionate, comprehensive,…
Diverging mindsets
Ours is a world of proliferating “ologies”. ‘Aetiology’, ‘cognitology’, and ‘onomasiology’ are a few new ones for me. Recently two ‘ologies’ appeared linked in a sentence I read that now unsettles my memory: “Technology defines ontology”. The word ‘technology’ is well understood; not so with…