Good Steward Newsletter – May 2013

Bitter Tears in the Season of Easter Joy If God the Father almighty, the Creator of the ordered and good world, cares for all his creatures, why does evil exist? To this question, as pressing as it is unavoidable and as painful as it is mysterious, no quick answer will suffice. Only Christian faith as [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – April 2013

Easter Witnesses of Hope and Joy Easter is the season of hope and joy. We have hope because sin and death have been overcome—once and for all. The darkness of despair has been vanquished, and light has come into our weary world never to be permanently extinguished. Yes, there may be dark days and troubled [...]

The Beginning of a Humble Migrant’s Papacy

Catholic Online – By John Klink – March 18, 2013 (printable version) Francis made a particular point on the balcony to bow and literally listen to his people as the first act of being their pastor. And he asked them to bless him and pray for him before he would bless them. In that instant [...]

The Cry of the Poor

Tertium Quid – Vol. 3, Issue 4 – By Robert Chronowski – March 19, 2013 (printable version) “The Lord hears the cry of the poor; blessed be the Lord” is a response to Psalm 34 as used in the Mass readings often enough that we all recognize the words. We say or sing those words [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – March 2013

Saying farewell to Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI: A Good Steward of the Good News I first encountered Joseph Ratzinger in 1974 when I was a graduate student at Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Southern Indiana. I was preparing to write my master’s thesis in systematic theology and I was reading some really [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – February 2013

Angels Are Evangelizers and Good Stewards of All God’s Creation Angels have been present since creation and throughout the history of salvation, announcing this salvation from afar or near and serving the accomplishment of the divine plan…They protect Jesus in his infancy, serve him in the desert, strengthen him in his agony in the garden…Again, [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – January 2013

Stewardship is a Response in Faith to the Lord’s Invitation Jesus’ disciples and Christian stewards recognize God as the origin of life, giver of freedom, and source of all things. We are grateful for the gifts we have received and are eager to use them to show our love for God and for one another. [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – December 2012

Advent’s Three Stages of Longing Bishop Robert F. Morneau, a pastor, poet and ardent Green Bay Packers’ fan, writes in the December issue of Give Us This Day: Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic, “Advent celebrates God’s multiple comings into our lives.” The bishop then identifies Advent’s three stages: 1) Jesus’ historic birth in Bethlehem, 2) [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – November 2012

We Are All Called to be Secret Saints On November 1st we celebrate the Feast of All Saints—not just the saints who’ve been officially recognized through the Church’s very thorough process of canonization, but all the saints. All Saints includes those women and men whose faith is known to God alone and whose courage, integrity [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – October 2012

Faith, Religious Liberty and Human Suffering The salvation of the world does not come, in the final analysis, from a transformation of the world or a political system that sets itself up as absolute and divine. We must, indeed, go on working to transform the world, soberly, realistically, patiently, humanely. But mankind has a demand [...]

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