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“I pray for you every day, Father Kiley,” St. Joseph of Springfield Sister Charles Joseph Carr, who recently passed away, would remind me quite often.
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BY: FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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5/30/08
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“The Woonsocket Call” recently noted that St. Joseph Church in that city would soon be offering the old Latin Mass for worshippers who treasure fondly the solemnity of that ritual.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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5/21/08
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Recently I was greeting people at the door of the church following a parish Mass when a lady approached me and said, “Bishop, would you please tell our pastor to put the daily Mass back to 9:00 o’clock instead of 8:00 o’clock where it is now?
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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5/20/08
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An Internet video features a glimpse of a testimonial banquet given by the Queen of England for the president of France.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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5/16/08
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Pentecost is often called the “Birthday of the Church” since on that day the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles and brought them together in a new and marvelous unity; on that day they became the Body of Christ.
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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5/9/08
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The solemnity of Pentecost is often commemorated as the birthday of the church.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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5/9/08
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It has been proposed from time to time that Jesus never really intended to establish a church.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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5/2/08
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In the fierce debate about immigration taking place in Rhode Island , a number of questions have arisen that deserve a response.
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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4/27/08
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In this Sunday’s Gospel passage, while preparing his disciples for the Pentecost event, Jesus promises that he will send them “another advocate.”
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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4/24/08
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Readings : Acts 6:1-7
1 Peter 2:4-9
John 14:1-12
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BY PATRICK V. REID PH. D.
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4/17/08
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Perhaps the most ancient representations of Jesus Christ portray him as the Good Shepherd.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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4/17/08
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Two new books concerning Catholic New England offer compelling reading.
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BY FATHER JOHN A. KILEY
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4/11/08
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Let us say once again: we need the greater and lesser hopes that keep us
going day by day. But these are not enough without the great hope, which
must surpass everything else. This great hope can only be God . . . God is
the foundation of hope: not any god, but the God who has a human face and
who has loved us to the end, each one of us and humanity in its entirety.
(Spe Salvi, #31)
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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4/10/08
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Pious Catholics often speak of various spiritualities — the spirituality of the priesthood, the spirituality of the religious life, the spirituality of marriage.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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4/4/08
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By the time you read this I will have celebrated what is euphemistically called a “milestone birthday,” a nice name for a dreadful event. Turning 60 is bad enough; doing so on April Fools Day is especially cruel.
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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4/2/08
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Herman Melville, known to most readers as the author of Moby Dick, lived much of his writing life in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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FR. JOHN KILEY
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3/28/08
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Readings: Acts 2:42-47
1 Peter 1:3-9
John 20:19-31
During the Easter season, the church's liturgy celebrates the life-giving effect of Jesus’ resurrection on the Christian community. …
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BY PATRICK V. REID, PH. D.
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3/28/08
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Atonement for sin is a notion that pre-dates Christianity and probably even pre-dates Judaism.
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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3/21/08
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We stand in front of our future which closes and opens at the
same time . . . Return to each place where a man has died;
Return to the place where he was born. The past is the time
of …
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BY BISHOP THOMAS J. TOBIN
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3/19/08
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The mid-century liturgical commission that revised the ceremonies for Holy Week was being subtly tongue-in-cheek or deliberately ironic when the members determined that Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday should be described as a “triumph.”
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BY FATHER JOHN KILEY
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3/14/08
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