Statement on Pastoral Blessings
Bishop James P. Powers’ Statement on Pastoral Blessings
Let your heart be light
En route to the Cities in late November, I heard Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald’s version of “A Marshmallow World,” a song popularized by another of my favorite vintage voices, Dean Martin.
Praying for a holy, joy-filled Christmas
Bishop James P. Power's 2023 Christmas message
At Christmastide, God comes to reign
I am sure every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “Why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?”
Advent’s pilgrimage of light
When Sr. Ave Clark was a special education teacher, her students made her an Advent wreath. Only it wasn’t round like the store-bought ones.
Thanksgiving Blessings
A thanksgiving message from Bishop James P. Powers
A subtler kind of poverty
Earlier this year, one of my older brothers died. By every indication, he had lived an exemplary life, one lived mainly for others. He died much loved by everyone who knew him. His was a life lived for family, church, community and friends.
Moral affinity and our deepest loneliness
Harvard psychologist Robert Coles, in describing the French mystic Simone Weil, once suggested that what she really suffered from and what motivated her life was her moral loneliness. What is that?
A tool we can all use
Some weeks ago, parishes in the Diocese of Superior began receiving bundled issues of the Superior Catholic Herald.
Silence and listening as children of the church
On Sept. 30, the eve of the General Assembly of the Synod on Synodality, Pope Francis addressed 15,000 pilgrims during an ecumenical prayer service in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. Those gathered, which included heads of many Christian churches of various denominations, gathered to call on the guidance of the Holy Spirit during the synodal proceedings.