James T. Keane
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- Sep 18, 2026
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Loyola Blakefield tackles the all-school Mass problem, dedicating a new altar (opens the original)
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Catholic high schools all over the country have a problem when it comes to all-school Masses. Usually the school chapel is far too small to accommodate the entire student body, but a Mass in the gym or student center can lack a certain reverence. How does one convey a sense of the sacred when the altar is a kitchen table set up in the low post? At Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Md., they’re trying something new. Thanks to the craftsmanship of a Brooklyn-born priest, Richard Zanoni, S.J., they have
Rules can be helpful—if we know what they’re for (opens the original)
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The Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist A Reflection for the Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist As Jesus passed by,he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post.He said to him, “Follow me.”And he got up and followed him.While he was at table in his house,many tax collectors and sinners cameand sat with Jesus and his disciples.The Pharisees saw this and said to his disciples,“Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”He heard this and said,“Those w
Sigrid Undset: Scholar, storyteller and future saint (opens the original)
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Not really, but when one approaches the facade of Bjerkebaek, her home in the town of Lillehammer in her native Norway, it is hard to find it charming. Truth be told, it looks like a military bunker. What is visible is a modern accretion, part of the Bjerkebaek Visitors Center added in recent decades to the home (really two adjacent houses) that Undset built out of 14th-century predecessors. Once inside, one encounters a different world, a warren of rooms full of books, pictures, Catholic devoti
Enough books to fill the entire world (opens the original)
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What’s your favorite Bible verse? The answer for each of us probably varies over the course of our lives, and possibly also changes according to the circumstances. I was once part of a group exercise where each person was asked to share a treasured line of Scripture. After many edifying and consoling moments (and some of “neither do I condemn you,” natch), a clever fellow brought the house down with an unexpected fave: “Luke 7:34: The Son of Man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold
The Nothing Men (opens the original)
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Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time Although I am free in regard to all,I have made myself a slave to allso as to win over as many as possible…I have become all things to all, to save at least some.All this I do for the sake of the Gospel,so that I too may have a share in it. (1 Cor 9:19-23) One of the songs associated in many an American imagination with Sept. 11, 2001, is Bruce Springsteen’s “Nothing Man.” Though Sp
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