UPON THIS ROCK Urban Connection I salute those who live, learn, work, worship, dine, or do volunteer activities in the inner city. Urban centers tend to get abandoned by sprawling populations, but we know that, just as with a human body, the core must be strengthened...
UPON THIS ROCK G*R*A*C*E I recently came across a thirty-year-old newspaper clipping about angels (Advice from the Angels by Tanya Barrientos, Knight-Ridder News). It caught my attention, especially its encouragement for us, mere mortals, to avail ourselves to angles...
UPON THIS ROCK Upcoming Up & Comers As part of a community or community of faith, part of a city or civic community, part of a family or group of friends, we’re always interested in what’s coming up, or when and where we might gather next, or how our attention...
UPON THIS ROCK Mary of Knots Like many Catholics, I have a rosary that I carry in my pocket. I’m not sure how I got into the habit, but it has been with me for most of my life. I go through lots of rosaries because they tend to eventually break: a tiny strand of its...
UPON THIS ROCK Word Cereal Polarity is natural but polarization stymies progress and stability. Community and communion are good, but communism is not. Secularity is a reality, but secularism is damaging. The clerical state can be holy, but clericalism is evil....
UPON THIS ROCK Bonds of Brotherhood For the past five years or so, I have met periodically (roughly quarterly) with a group of guys who desire to deepen their spiritual lives. Their nucleus is the Rockhurst High School Class of 1990, though a few others, including a...
