SEATTLE – Mirya Muñoz-Roach has been named executive director of St. Vincent de Paul Seattle-King County, the first woman to lead the nonprofit organization in its nearly 100 years of serving the poor.
SEATTLE – Even though they now live in Massachusetts, brothers Mack and Sterling Goedde have stayed firmly connected to their “Little Irish” mentors at O’Dea High School in Seattle.
EVERETT – On Wednesdays, Ed Mohs stands in front of Planned Parenthood, praying for an end to abortion.
In May of 2015, Pope Francis released his encyclical Laudato Si’, the Italian title taken St. Francis of Assisi’s beautiful “Canticle of the Creatures”: “Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who produces various fruit with colored flowers and herbs.” Early in the encyclical, Pope Francis...
There is an art and a science to slow living. This summer I’m trying to learn both.
There is, to be sure, a stress within the biblical tradition that God is radically other: “Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior” (Isaiah 45:15) and “No one shall see [God] and live” (Exodus 33:20). This speaks to the fact that the one who creates the entire universe from nothing cannot be, himself…
This time of year, many parents are saying goodbye as their children head off to college for the first time. Like our young adults, we are excited about their new adventure. But we also may worry a little — will they eat right, go to all their classes, make good decisions?
Half of adult Catholics are unaware of the church’s teaching that the eucharistic bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ.
