By Fr. Dennis Chriszt, C.PP.S. Over the past year, since the pandemic started, many of us can identify with Job in today’s first reading. Life has become a drudgery. And many of us wonder if we shall ever see happiness again. Like Simon’s mother-in-law, too...
Maureen Lahiff , Companion Geraldine “Gerry” Downs was born the fourth of five children in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1937 to a family of modest means. After attending Catholic schools from grammar school through high school, she trained and worked as a surgical tech. Gerry...
By Neil and Patricia Diller When I think of people who have been an inspiration to me and many others throughout their lives, one who always comes near the top of the list is my uncle, Fr. Harold Diller, C.PP.S. Now that we are discussing a new creation, I recall that...
Jerome Stack, C.PP.S. Just as the United States was beginning to emerge from the Great Depression, Joseph Marling was elected provincial director of the American Province in 1938, the youngest priest ever elected to that position. At the time he was 33 years old and a...
The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. (Mark 1:22) By Fr. Steve Dos Santos, C.PP.S. What was it about him that astonished the people so powerfully? Last week Peter and Andrew dropped...
