Since its inception twenty-six years ago the donors of the National Catholic Community Foundation have requested thousands of grants be made with an aggregate value exceeding $30 million. To appreciate the geographic dispersion of these grants and the wide variety of recipients Readers might visit…
Author: Dana Robinson
American Federation Pueri Cantores
Mid-Atlantic Pueri Cantores Youth Choral Festival and Mass celebrated by Cardinal Gregory. An exciting and promising development is underway in this country. Growing numbers of parents, grandparents and choir directors throughout the nation are being touched by the ineffable power of children and young adults…
Pro-choice….Anti-discrimination
The media is abuzz with rumors that extraterrestrial beings are monitoring our planet. Surely, if these visitors are even nominally intelligent, they must be amused by us homo sapiens and our habit of linguistic contradiction. Consider the popular uses of the terms pro-choice and discrimination. …
Edmundite Missions
A compelling example of philanthropy as the outreach of God’s love is the work of the Edmundite Missions in Selma, Alabama. It is an especial pleasure to bring this apostolate to the attention of our readers because the President and C.E.O. of the Edmusndite Missions…
Noun or verb?
Are you a logophilic nerd? Are you inebriated by verbal nuance, troubled by the mutability in the meaning of words? If so, have no fear. You’re not alone and your condition may be instructive. For instance, it is illustrative to consider the different implications of…
Teaching Spiritual Things Spiritually
Because of their interest in the works of the Church around the world, our donors are aware of the vibrant growth the faith is experiencing in the southern hemisphere. Parish communities are expanding, churches are bursting at the seams during Sunday liturgies, and – especially…
Rebounding the Course of Evolution
“Do we accept the idea, strongly supported by fact, that the individual man cannot achieve his wholeness….except in solidarity with all other men, present, past and future? If we do, the awareness aroused in us of being a responsible element in a rebounding course of…
Unicity and Aseity
The scandal of particularity is a phrase which means different things to different people. For many, it refers to God’s selection of the Jews to be his Chosen People through whom the salvation of the world would be wrought. Why would he bestow this privilege…
CST and Philanthropy
Contrary to what some might think, Catholic social teaching (CST) is not a modern concept. It is rooted in scripture, in the deliberations of the early Church, and in the subsequent writings of numerous theologians and philosophers. The popular understanding is that CST attained its…
Self-service or self-help?
Readers older than I may recall the Horn and Hardart Automats in New York and Philadelphia in the 1900s. By placing a few coins in a slot a hungry customer could open one of many small glass windows and retrieve a reasonably fresh meal. It…