Tag: Greg Erlandson

It's not often you get the pope to celebrate your birthday, even if it's your 100th. Catholic News Service turned 100 in the midst of...

Jan. 6, 2021, was an epiphany of sorts for Americans who watched in horror as a mob breached the U.S. Capitol, assaulted police and...

It seems as if there are two kinds of graduation narratives for what happens after young collegians toast each other with one last Natty...

It is no surprise that Catholic dioceses, parishes, schools and organizations have been profoundly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. With unemployment impacting so many...

Have you started going back to Mass yet? Recently I went to my first Mass in three months. I had been watching Masses livestreamed weekly,...

I’ve been a bit puzzled about all the debate and outrage over wearing masks. I know some of it is weirdly ideological, but some...

There are strange gifts wrapped in this terrible pandemic. Its horrors are known, even if they were not appreciated early enough by many. Yet this...

For many Catholics these days, bishops are like members of Congress. We may like ours but distrust the lot of them. To judge from...

"Marketing is a contest for people’s attention." -- Seth Godin I heard about a parish recently. It has regular eucharistic adoration, but only the old-timers...

When Alabama’s governor, Kay Ivey, signed the nation’s most restrictive abortion bill into law, she gave this simple explanation. "Every life is precious," she said. The...