Stay a while longer … and invite others
This column actually is an invitation to all of you. Please stay a while longer with The Message, and invite others to join you. We are grateful for your readership, and we work every day to earn your loyalty and continuing support. Why this column … why now? We have reached the time of year...Read full story »
Thursday, March 01, 2018
Same message, different day
Recently in this space, I concluded with this thought: “Help (people) to recognize the concept of having faith in God, and you just might enable the Holy Spirit to ‘get a foot in the door.’ He will take it from there.” It appears as though the act of writing that column invo...Read full story »
Thursday, February 15, 2018
I believe
By my reckoning, Christian Picciolini was about to renounce the white-power movement in 1995 when the Cincinnati-based band Blessid Union of Souls released its first album, “Home,” which featured the song “I Believe.” I was driving through Arkansas the next year, on my way h...Read full story »
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
This choice is pretty much a 'no-brainer'
National School Choice Week begins Sunday – just a week before 2018 Catholic Schools Week. I made a brief jaunt around the Internet before beginning this column, and it only took a few minutes to confirm my view that choosing Catholic schools is pretty much a “no-brainer.” Many of...Read full story »
Thursday, January 18, 2018
A resolution we all can make
On New Year’s Eve 2017, I found a series of short videos assembled as an Instagram “story.” The poster, a young woman attending college at a major university, spent a few minutes offering advice to her followers as they prepared to begin a new year. She talked about not worrying,...Read full story »
Thursday, January 04, 2018
Rejoice and give thanks for glorious day!
What a glorious day this is for our diocese! Friends, please join me, above all, in thanking God for sending Most Rev. Joseph M. Siegel to serve as the Sixth Bishop of Evansville. Please also join me in thanking Father Bernie Etienne for his wonderful leadership as Diocesan Administrator over these...Read full story »
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
In all circumstances give thanks
“In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). That brief passage from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians is part of the readings for Thanksgiving Mass this year. Over the past couple of weeks, across...Read full story »
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
… neither the day nor the hour
The Gospel for Nov. 12, the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, ends with these words: “Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour” (Matthew 25:13). Just before beginning this column, I read and copyedited this issue’s “Connecting Faith and Life”...Read full story »
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
We are no longer without a Shepherd
With seven words, Diocesan Administrator Father Bernie Etienne began the next chapter of the Diocese of Evansville on Oct. 18 during the introductory press conference for Bishop-designate Joseph M. Siegel at St. Benedict Cathedral. “We are no longer without a shepherd.” Seated to Father...Read full story »
Thursday, October 26, 2017
How time flies, often without change
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners…. As of the date of this issue – Oct. 13, 2017 – 100 years will have passed since the Miracle of the Sun occurred in the skies over Fatima, Portugal, immediately following Our Lady’s last appearance to the three peasant ch...Read full story »
Thursday, October 12, 2017
