Let’s beat corruption

Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton

CORRUPTION is an ugly word. It means doing something dishonest for one’s personal gain, and Africa, unfortunately, is well known for it. Read more…

Lauren Khoury

By Tom Jasiukowicz

Lauren Khoury is using her talent for singing to “spread God’s love and mercy. I have been given the grace to develop my gifts and natural talents from God.” She has always known that singing is what she is meant to do. Read more…

Let’s help the visitors

Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton

Any crowded place is an opportunity for slick confidence tricksters, thieves and muggers to move in for the pickings. Read more…

Lindsay McGuire

By Elizabeth Ellis

Lindsay McGuire has known that she wanted to sing since the age of four. Now with a debut album under her belt, and a movie role pending, the Catholic-born performer knows she made the right decision. Read more…

Sacred song: the road ahead

Guest Editorial by Michael Shackleton

Church musicians, like the rest of the musical world this year, are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart, who composed magnificent sacred music that ever since has raised the heart in solemn acts of public worship and even in private prayer. Read more…

Divine Mercy Sunday

Our parish celebrated the Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday for the first time. We found, however, that there is a lot of confusion about this feast day. Is it to be celebrated and incorporated in the Sunday Masses on the second Sunday of Easter, as Pope John Paul instructed in 2000? Read more…

The pope at Auschwitz

THE visit of the German-born Pope Benedict to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland will have impressed not only those who admire the pontiff, but even some of his harshest critics—especially after reports that the visit was included only on the pope’s personal insistence. Read more…

P.O.D. – Testify

The latest offering from this Christian rock group that provided the perfect soundtrack to the über surfer-chick movie Blue Crush, Testify delivers on all fronts. Read more…

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