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 [...]

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 – 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 [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – September 2012

The Year of Faith, Celebrating What We Do and What We Believe All the good things the Church does flows from who we are, the faith we have which provides us our very identity. We do good stuff precisely because of our faith. – Timothy Cardinal Dolan We’d like to believe that, by now, every [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – July 2012

Celebrating a Year of Faith The Year of Faith is a celebration by the entire Catholic Church that begins October 1, 2012—the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church— and concludes November 14, 2013, the feast of Christ the King. Pope [...]

A Land of Missionaries, Immigrants and Saints

Tertium Quid – Vol. 3, Issue 2 – June 8, 2012 Written by Archbishop José H. Gomez (May 4, 2012) Introduction below by John Klink – Managing Director, O’Meara Ferguson (printable version) In his recent article which follows, Archbishop Jose Gomez as a good pastor, and Chair of the U.S. Bishops’ Migration Committee, is appropriately [...]

(podcast) I Thirst

Near the crucifix in the chapel of each of the convents of the Missionaries of Charity is a framed parchment bearing the words, “I Thirst.” Blessed Teresa of Calcutta had a great devotion to this phrase, one of the last words of Our Lord upon the cross. In this podcast O’Meara Ferguson president and founder [...]

Good Steward Newsletter – June 2012

Stewards of Religious Liberty My guess is that most Catholics in the Unites States don’t know what to make of the quarrel between the leaders of our Church and the Obama administration. Especially since this is taking place during an election year that involves an ever-escalating course of accusations and counter-accusations by representatives of different [...]

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