Tapping into a yearning and fulfilling it. That’s youth ministry. Last Word The last 25 years saw significant development in ministry to youth in our dioces... Read More
How is retirement going? Last Word Not a week passes without several people asking me questions like, “How’s the re... Read More
My experience of having cancer Last Word Since this issue of FAITH Magazine focuses on Life and Death, the editors sugges... Read More
Did Jesus Really Descend into Hell? Last Word When catechetical sermons were standard, before Vatican II ordered homilies on a... Read More
Embracing other rites Last Word The typical American Catholic professes belief in “one, holy, catholic and apost... Read More
Ecumenical experiences Last Word In April of 1982, the Michigan Council of Churches was folding; and the Catholic... Read More
Our Reason for celebration Last Word Christmas is a time for giving and receiving gifts, and I wonder whether any FAI... Read More
Holiday Time, Family Time Last Word My sisters and I joked for years that, in our family as we were growing up, our ... Read More
Women of the Church Last Word Bishop Stephen Woznicki of Saginaw, who ordained me in 1950 and was my overseer ... Read More
The Joy of God Last Word Before the new liturgy in English was introduced, Mass used to begin with recita... Read More
Our American Rights Last Word “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” is an old American saying that has prove... Read More
Where Are You Going? Last Word If ever in history there was a people “on the move,” it’s Americans. In pickups ... Read More
Eternal Easter Visions Last Word Alan Jay Lerner wrote those lyrics back around 1966, Barbra Streisand sings them... Read More
The Desert Experience Last Word It’s not easy for Michigan people to grasp either the reality or the symbolism o... Read More
Catholics as Evangelists Last Word For more than a decade now, as we approached the end of the second millennium an... Read More
Old Janus and a New Year – looking both ahead and behind Last Word January takes its name from the old Roman god Janus, a pagan deity who had two f... Read More