Good Steward Newsletter – January 2012

The New Evangelization and the New Year In a recent speech to bishops from the state of New York who were making the visit to Rome that is required of each bishop every five years, Pope Benedict XVI returned to two of the themes that dominated his visit to the United States in 2008: the [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – August 2011

The Debt Crisis: A Nice Mess, Indeed The comedian Oliver Hardy was known to wrinkle his nose, purse his lips and proclaim to his partner, Stan Laurel, “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” If Laurel and Hardy were with us today, they might offer similar observations about the current debt crisis in [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – July 2011

Life in Christ is what the Eucharist is All About If it is true—as we believe it is—that Christ is really present in the Eucharist, then this is the event that is at the center of absolutely everything. Pope Benedict XVI Life in Christ is what the Eucharist is all about. It is about the [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – June 2011

You Are Invited to Participate In an Online Conversation about Stewardship I started writing about stewardship in 1988 when I went to work for the Archdiocese of Louisville. I was invited to write a weekly column called The Good Steward. I’m still writing The Good Steward 23 years later—not as a weekly newspaper column but [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – March 2011

Unity Requires Fidelity to the Apostles’ Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread and Prayer Last month, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Benedict XVI outlined what he called the four characteristics that made the early Church community in Jerusalem “a place of unity and love.” The Holy Father suggested that these four characteristics, [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – September 2010

O’Meara Ferguson Funds Stewardship Center “The promotion of the practice of stewardship is important for the mission of the Church and for the spiritual well-being of each individual Christian. Everyone benefits from the sacrificial gift one makes of his time, talent, and treasure.” — Pope Benedict XVI Since 2006 the Marian University Center for Catholic [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – April 2010

We Will All Be Held Accountable For the Protection and Care of Our Children What can we say that hasn’t already been said many, many times before, especially in recent years? The sexual abuse of children is an unspeakable moral evil. Anyone who commits such a heinous crime – especially family members, priests, teachers, coaches, [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – February 2010

What Are You Doing to Celebrate the Year For Priests? Last summer at a prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI formally opened the Year for Priests. “The Church needs priests who are holy, ministers who help the faithful experience the merciful love of the Lord and who are convinced witnesses of that [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – September 2009

Health Care Reform: A Stewardship Perspective The Gospel of St. Luke presents Jesus healing ten lepers, of whom only one, a Samaritan and therefore a foreigner, returned to thank him. The Lord said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.” — (Luke 17:19 quoted by Pope Benedict XVI during [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – June 2009 (special edition)

Who Touched Me? Archbishops Receive the Pallium, a Sign of Unity, from Pope Benedict XVI The following Good Steward Newsletter was submitted from Rome on June 29, 2009. On Sunday June 28, the Gospel reading for the day was the story of the woman who was afflicted with a disease that many doctors could not [...]

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