The close of the year is just around the corner, as is the holiday season. It’s that time of year again when we start to think about expressing gratitude for the blessings we’ve received and at the same time planning for our upcoming taxes. Thankfully, the two often...
Doug and I belong to a “Friday” group. We all raised our children together in the community of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Many years ago we started sharing the occasional Friday dinner together. Our friendships were formed within this community of faith....
The Catholic Community Foundation is pleased to announce that our Spring Grant Cycle has now closed and grants have been awarded. Through the generous donations of our donors, we were able to fund 76 of the 85 programs that applied this year. A total of $237,600 was...
The file room in the basement of the Cathedral Basilica’s administrative building is filled with medical records: 13,000 of them. A few dozen are marked with a neon sticker. Each folder represents an individual of the community who receives services from the...
Change: Necessary, inevitable, bittersweet, hopeful, filled with opportunity; We recognized all these aspects of change as we celebrated with a beautiful Mass as we bid farewell to our auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly. And how fitting that we gathered around the table of...
I was recently invited to participate in a three-day workshop designed around the creation of an “ethical will.” Unfamiliar with the term, I envisioned being informed of various ways to incorporate my moral, ethical and faith-based priorities into the legal documents...
