Easter joy lingers, in fact for 50 days, we rejoice in this hopeful season. Why is it that worries like the quickly approaching flood waters get center stage? Why is joy a neglected part of our days? My days are filled with complaints and beseeching of God’s help when things don’t go my way. How…

The clock is ticking down, the calender moves toward May 14, the day of my return to Kentucky, so I’d better see everything on my list. High on any former biology teacher’s list would be the exhibit BODIES. Many are horrified at the thought of going to an exhibit of dissected humans and human parts,…

Besides the programs, panels, films, and speakers over in the meeting rooms, there are always other things going on in the lobby of the public part of the U.N. building. The other day, in front of the lovely blue Chagall stained glass window in the lobby, there was a memorial service for the 44 United…

Members of the Christian Women’s Retreat enjoy their time at the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on the weekend of April 15-17.

Members of the RCIA class at Sts. Joseph and Paul Catholic Church in Owensboro, Ky., gathered in the Madonna Room of the Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center on April 16.

These past two weeks have not had a single “theme,” but have offered a real smorgasbord of interesting things–pretty typical of some of the topics the U.N. deals with. While the Security Council has been meeting every day on topics like Libya, the Ivory Coast, and Sudan, other U.N. and NGO groups have been immersed…

Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, a friend, dead, buried and demanded, “Take the stone away!” Many are the names of deadness in each of us. Many are the risings that need to take place. Today, I ask that the Risen Voice resurrect in me the deadness that needs to be raised up. Resurrect…

Being in a large city for Holy Week has been a rich experience. St. Agnes church (near Grand Central Station) where I stop in sometimes for daily Mass has a number of more traditional practices; the statues were covered with purple drapes this week. On Wednesday we attended a “Tenebrae” (from a Latin word meaning…

Sister Michele Morek told the crowd at the Brescia University Distinguished Alumni Banquet on April 9 that among the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph, “Ph.D.” once stood for “Poor Home Devil,” because if you had one, you would never leave Brescia. “Well, I never wanted to (leave),” she said. “If you count the four…