EVERYONE IS FOLLOWING SOMEONE. Take my son Peter for example. Lately, he has been in the habit of stepping into my wingtips and announcing to the rest of the family, “I’m David.” He will holler “Meg!” to Mary Cate across the house—she is Meg in this arrangement...

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Pandora was the first woman, according to the greeks. Her name means literally “all the gifts,” since according to mythology, all of the gods had a hand in her creation. The story goes that each deity endowed her with a unique “gift,” gifts that were actually punishments the pantheon wished to inflict upon humankind—toil, disease, death and “a myriad other pains,” as the poet Hesiod describes. All of these were released on the world when “Pandora’s Box” was opened, and humanity has suffered ever since.

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Pentecost: All in the family

Sunday, May 31st, is Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. St. Peter's great sermon on the day of Pentecost made it clear that the Church is a family, Christ's family, particularly in his closing invitation: "The promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him." (Acts 2:39)

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By Him: With Him: In Him

It was the kind of event that could only happen once. But then it started to happen all the time. It might even happen to you. It happened once. Once, on a hill outside Jerusalem, Jesus died.

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