Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference to our brothers and sisters

by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | February 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 5: Filled with God’s Love and Joy.
by John Freund, CM | May 31, 2019 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments
We live in a post-Ascension world where Jesus no longer walks among us. Or does he? If we are the Body of Christ then our footprints are his footprints.
by Javier F. Chento | September 24, 2017 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
by John Freund, CM | August 21, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
by John Freund, CM | Feb 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference to our brothers and sisters
by John Freund, CM | Feb 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Shortly before becoming a Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel, CM called on the Vatican to speak for those suffering...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Many forms of examination of conscience
by John Freund, CM | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
“I’ll Just Come Down and Show You” - God takes on human form at Christmas -- and gives us an example for how to live our lives In classic Busted Halo fashion the post cuts through to the essence of Christmas! From the post... A few years ago, I was trying to help a...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you want it done… ask a nun! These words were coined years ago by Margaret Wheatley a valued and respected elder in her field of leadership and organizational change.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Would Jesus Pick A Bar Stool Over A Church Pew? We have all heard the statement that bartenders hear more confessions…
by John Freund, CM | Dec 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Final report on US Nuns affirmative and realistic – The full text of the report of the Apostolic visitation
by John Freund, CM | Dec 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Destroy hatred, not enemies, to bring peace – Peace does not come from wiping out enemies, it comes from destroying all hatred with prayer, dialogue and friendship, including in the church and within the Roman Curia, said Father Raniero Cantalamessa the preacher of the papal household.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Presuppositions – what are our presuppotions? There has already been much ink spilled about the World Synod of the Family … and more will be spilled in the run up to the 2015 installment. My concern is that so much of the writing is rooted in presuppositions which are never dealt with consciously. Too often presuppositions are a form of “poisoning wells” or ideological “spin”.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Why is it that other people "resist"? There has been a lot of talk about resistance to changes in the church and in society. But as I read the blogs and the tweets I am struck by the fact that many seem to assume that it is "the other" who is resisting. Whether it is...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
People who are poor must wonder what makes us “tick”. One Daughter of Charity at a clinic in India who changed a filthy bandage and cleaned the infected wound of a woman with leprosy was asked this question by the grateful woman. “Sister, how can you do this work?”
by John Freund, CM | Dec 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Archbishop Cupich, Pope Francis and St.Vincent – When I read this piece about Archbishop Cupich, Pope Francis’s first major U.S. appointment, I thought immediately of St. Vincent de Paul, and indeed just about all the founders of the the various branches of the Vincentian Family. What do you think?