Issue #132     
Contents

Daily Bread
Daily Inspiration
Daily Saint
Daily Cheer
Daily Reflection
Daily Missal Readings

Columns
Aneel Aranha
Edward P Sri
Fr. Erasto Fernandez
Fr. Fio Mascarenhas
Fr. Francis Jamieson
Fr. Jack McArdle
Fr. John McCloskey
Fr. Jude Botelho
Fr. Peter deSousa
Fr. Rufus Pereira
Fr. William Saunders
Mark Shea
Steve Hemler
Tom Frankenfield

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The Gift: A Married Priest Looks at Celibacy by Rev. Ray Ryland
“You're a married priest? I didn't know we had married priests. I think the Church should let all her priests marry.” Words like these have greeted me frequently since my ordination to the priesthood in 1983, with dispensation from the rule of celibacy. I always assure those who favor optional celibacy that both my wife and I strongly support the Church's discipline of priestly celibacy. Read more


Love and Responsibility #11
How Contraception Destroys Love by Edward P Sri


Led By The Spirit #51
The Second Advent by Fr. Rufus Pereira


Life's Little Learnings #13
Why Go To Mass? by Steve Hemler

The HSI Discipleship Program: The Discipleship programs for Winter 2006 continue with a series of retreats in Chennai, India from December 7. Click here for more details.

First Years and Forever #5
Keep Good Companions by Tom McGrath


The Other Side of Christ #5
The Unseen Heart of the Disease by Fr. Robert D Smith


Straight Answers #104
Why Fast Before Communion? by Fr. William Saunders