Holy locations – Joseph Stoutzenberger

Will U.S. Catholicism Survive?

That sounds exactly like what Pope John XXIII and Pope Francis feared. They warned that the church was not meant to be a museum. If it was to survive it had to be a living, growing, thriving garden. To be that blossoming garden, both of these popes saw a need for change—what Pope John XXIII called aggiornamento, “updating.”

Sacramental Seeing: Are There Limits?

A particularly touching religious site for me was the little chapel of St. Francis in the grand basilica in Assisi, erected in his honor. I discovered, however, that the most moving and heart-wrenching place I visited was the remains of the concentration camp at Dachau.