Over at the Evangelical Channel on Patheos, Adrian Warnock is hosting a conversation about faith and mental illness in honor of the fact that May is Mental Health Awareness month. Throughout the month, I hope to post blogs to contribute to that conversation, as I believe that it is a crucial conversation for Christians and all people of good will to be Read more
The following is a guest post by Holly Taylor Coolman, Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College and mother to three. Last week, the Huffington Post offered readers an essay similar to several publications in recent years, in which mothers and fathers describe with candor the frustrations of parenting. For this father, writing anonymously, the situation looms in the near future: his wife Read more
Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is particularly true for Catholics in the United States. If you are a serious Catholic and you are deeply engaged with political life, you are compromising some part of your beliefs. Neither party perfectly represents Catholic beliefs. Or, if you prefer, the Catholic Church fails to represent either party’s beliefs. So, if you are seriously involved in Read more
The New Evangelization might just look like this: 7 priests on barstools at a Dave and Buster’s in Providence, Rhode Island, talking with a (sold out) crowd of 150 young adults about the faith we share. The event called “Grill the Priests” was sponsored by the Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of Providence (and perhaps others). Attendees were encouraged to bring Read more
It has been quite a week in Boston: explosions, deaths, maimings, and other injuries at the marathon; acts of heroism and pulling together in the mayhem that followed; an interfaith service that included a visit from President Obama; a crowdsourced manhunt; a bizarre night of robberies, killings, and shootouts; an even stranger day of a city on lockdown and a door-to-door manhunt Read more
The response to Paul Gondreau’s reflections and the whole story of his son Dominic’s encounter with Pope Francis has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly positive. As Christiana Gondreau told Wolf Blitzer “there was not a dry eye” anywhere around them in the moment, nor around the world as people encounter their story. Pope Francis has certainly won a lot of hearts, not only Read more
The following is a guest post from Paul Gondreau, Professor of Theology at Providence College. Paul is serving as the Faculty Resident Director at PC/CEA’s Center for Theology and Religious Studies in Rome this semester, joined by his wife Christiana and their 5 kids. After Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square yesterday, Pope Francis hugged their son Dominic. You can see video of Read more
Today is the feast of St. Louise de Marillac, patron saint of Christian social workers. I want to celebrate both St. Louise and social workers with this post. Many lessons could no doubt be drawn from the life of St. Louise, but I want to point out two. First, her life shows that great saints occur in clusters. Over the course of Read more
In a place that values tradition so highly, a couple of non-traditional things happened today in St. Peter’s Basilica. As everyone knows by now, Pope Benedict has announced his retirement, the first time a pope has done so in six centuries. So, for the first time since St. Peter’s Basilica was really the “home church” of the Pope (remember that the popes Read more
There is a lot going on today. It is the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. The March for Life is descending upon our nation’s capital. It is also the last day of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity. St. Paul could never be accused of being lukewarm. Up to his conversion, he was devout in his Jewish faith and Read more
Saturday Morning: 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm
Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:45 am,
12:30 pm, 5:30 pm
Saturday Vigil: 6:15pm
Sunday: 9:00am, 7:15pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 8:30 am
