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Issue: October 2026

Martyrs of the Gospel in Georgia: The Story of Pedro de Corpa and Companions

By Father Pablo Migone
Padre Pablo Migone no tiene una columna en español este mes. As I stepped out of the chapel at Franciscan University of Steubenville sometime in 2002, a light brown brochure lying on a large table...
Issue: October 2026

Magnifica Humanitas on Human Nature, Part 1

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
On May 15, 2026, Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical letter, Magnifica Humanitas, subtitled On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. Its title, “Magnificent Hum...
Issue: October 2026

Martyr Means Witness

By Nathan Krupa
Msgr. Fred Nijem, one of our columnists, passed away on May 16. Please see the obituary for more. Nathan Krupa is filling in for this issue. Being Catholic in Georgia can be challenging. I remembe...
Issue: September 2026

Caring for our Common Home // El Cuidado de Nuestra Casa Común

By Father Pablo Migone
When I was five years old, my family visited Epcot in Orlando for the first time. I was amazed at the giant gray sphere at the heart of the park. I recall my excitement when I learned the sphere wa...
Issue: September 2026

He Humbled Himself

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Every year, on September 14, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. This celebration originated with traditional accounts of St. Helena’s fourth-century pilgrimage to Je...
Issue: September 2026

Creation and St. Kateri

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
Msgr. Fred Nijem, one of our columnists, passed away on May 16. Please see the obituary for more. Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD, is filling in for this issue. A little over a decade ago when I learned ...
Issue: August 2026

The Catholic Unity of Faith and Reason // La Unidad Católica de la Fe y la Razón

By Father Pablo Migone
The Catholic Church is not afraid of knowledge because it boldly professes that one who seeks truth – regardless of discipline – seeks he who is Truth, Jesus Christ. Contrary to the widespread assu...
Issue: August 2026

Echoes of Summers Past

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
A famous 13th-century Middle English rota (round) begins with the exclamation, “Sumer is icumen in!” – in modern English, “Summer has arrived!” Picture the colder climate of those “Little Ice Age” ...
Issue: August 2026

Know Your Faith and Live It

By Nathan Krupa
Msgr. Fred Nijem, one of our columnists, passed away on May 16. Please see the obituary for more. Nathan Krupa is filling in for this issue. An atheist from Los Angeles and a nun from New York Cit...
Issue: July 2026

Our Catholic Founding Family

By Bradley Vickers
Msgr. Fred Nijem, one of our columnists, passed away on May 16. Please see the obituary for more. Bradley Vickers, a staff writer for the Southern Cross, is filling in for this issue. As our natio...
Issue: July 2026

The National Anniversary and My Own

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Two hundred fifty years ago, on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia’s sweltering heat, adopted “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America...
Issue: July 2026

A Life of Dedication // Una vida de dedicación

By Father Pablo Migone
Msgr. Fred Nijem passed away on May 16. Please see the obituary for more. Still a newly ordained priest, I mentioned to my pastor, Fr. Fred Nijem, that I felt I was spending too much time working ...
Issue: May 2026

God's Grace Behind Bars // La Gracia de Dios detrás de las Rejas

By Father Pablo Migone
I often consider that the most forgotten members of society are the incarcerated. This is likely because many do not consider them part of society anymore – they have been confined to oblivion to p...
Issue: May 2026

On Prison Ministry

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The Gospel according to Matthew contains a remarkable passage concerning the risen and ascended Christ’s coming in glory, on the Last Day, to judge the living and the dead. The passage (25:31-33) b...
Issue: May 2026

True Challenge of the Cross

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Originally published in the May 14, 2020 issue of the Southern Cross Well into the Easter season now, we may have quickly forgotten the road map that brought us to this point of rejoicing and hope...
Issue: April 2026

Consecrated Life Explained // La Vida Consagrada Explicada

By Father Pablo Migone
In late 2014, Pope Francis called for a “Year of Consecrated Life” in the Church. I recall that our diocese responded with a significant celebration on February 2, 2015, at the then-Cathedral of St...
Issue: April 2026

A 50-Day Feast

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Our celebration of the Paschal Mystery – the dying and rising of our Savior Jesus Christ – is a 50-day feast. This festive season concludes on the 50th (pentecostes in biblical Greek) – and last – ...
Issue: April 2026

It's Hard to be a Christian in the Holy Land

By Bradley Vickers
Monsignor Nijem's column will return next month. “It's hard to be a Christian in the Holy Land.” So says William Klein, the new section president of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Hol...
Issue: March 2026

All is Grace // Todo es Gracia

By Father Pablo Migone
Gratitude is at the heart of the Christian life. When I was a freshman in college, I attended an event hosted by the Catholic group on campus where a young woman, just a few years older than I was,...
Issue: March 2026

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Devotion to the Holy Family of Nazareth – Jesus, Mary, and Joseph – is a relatively recent phenomenon in the Catholic Church, and the feast in their honor is a recent addition to the General Roman ...
Issue: March 2026

You Can’t Take it with You – But You Can Send it on Ahead

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Recently, I was waiting at the doctor’s office. Looking for something to pass the time, I spied a booklet titled The Treasure Principle, by Randy Alcorn. It was certainly serendipity. I found Mr. A...
Issue: February 2026

Protector of Christ, Model for Families // Protector de Cristo, Modelo para Familias

By Father Pablo Migone
The 20th-century Spanish saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer suggested that the most important male saint of the Church is not a martyr, a priest, or a bishop; the most important saint is a father,...
Issue: February 2026

Blessed Paul VI: Pope of the Synod, Evangelization, and Family

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
NOTE: This column originally appeared in the October 16, 2014 issue of the Southern Cross. On Sunday, October 19, Pope Francis will conclude the Extraordinary Session of the Synod of Bishops on “T...
Issue: February 2026

The Family Tree of Jesus

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Tracing one's family tree seems to be the “in” thing these days. Ever since the TV series Roots aired, tracing one’s ancestry has become popular. Having just celebrated the birthday of Christ and c...
Issue: December 2025

The Persistence of Time // La persistencia del tiempo

By Father Pablo Migone
Hanging in the living room of my house when I was growing up was a square metal clock with red numbers and a pale white background. The modernist clock was quite unusual, always making a conversati...
Issue: December 2025

When the Time Had Fully Come

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
“When the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons...
Issue: December 2025

“Look Who Thinks He's a Sinner!”

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
At the funeral Mass for Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, Bishop John Crowley described the cardinal’s reaction when he first learned he had cancer. Hume was tempted to think, If I on...
Issue: November 2025

Serving the Underserved: The Sisters of St. Joseph // Sirviendo a los desfavorecidos: Las Hermanas de San José

By Father Pablo Migone
The Bishop of Savannah and Vicar Apostolic of Florida, Augustin Vérot, approached the Sisters of St. Joseph of Le Puy, France, in 1865 and invited them to work in the war-ravaged South by educating...
Issue: November 2025

Thanksgiving

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Two years ago, I stumbled upon a passage from the ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius (AD 180–240) in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, quoting Aristotle answering the question “What soon grows o...
Issue: November 2025

Learning How to Think

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
I recently came across a commencement address given by David Wallace (d. 2008) to the graduating class of Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, titled “This is Water.” I found it interesting because, whil...
Issue: October 2025

Don Bosco: Faith and Sports // Don Bosco: Fe y Deporte

By Father Pablo Migone
The Industrial Revolution reached northern Italy before the rest of the Italian boot, primarily the city of Turin, located closest to the borders of Switzerland and France. Immediately after his or...
Issue: October 2025

Lead, Kindly Light

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801–1890), soon to be proclaimed a Doctor of the Universal Church, wrote a famous reflection that I see as his prescription for living a Christian life. It begins, “God has ...
Issue: October 2025

From One Priest to Another: Sharing the Joy of One's Vocation

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
FR. ZIEMOWIT JANASEK (FR. Z) was ordained in June of this year and then assigned to serve as Parochial Vicar at Sacred Heart, Warner Robins (my parish). The following is based on an interview with ...
Issue: September 2025

Understanding Terminology: Hispanic or Latino? // Comprendiendo los términos: ¿Hispano o latino?

By Father Pablo Migone
While I was in the seminary in Rome, I worked at Santa Maria della Luca Parish in the Trastevere district of the city. The parish was one of several churches designated by the Diocese of Rome to be...
Issue: September 2025

Dr. Newman's Promotion

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
On September 19, 2010, in Birmingham, England, Pope Benedict XVI beatified Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman (b. Feb. 21, 1801, d. Aug. 11, 1890). In 2019, Pope Francis canonized St. John Henry Newman...
Issue: September 2025

Hospitality Means Making Room

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Miss Manners and Amy Vanderbilt have a lot to say about “hospitality.” But our faith has even more to say about this important virtue. On the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, the readings at Mass are ...
Issue: August 2025

What I Believe

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
The late Pope Francis composed his personal creed shortly before he was ordained as a Jesuit priest. I offer my creed on the occasion of my 83rd birthday. I offer this credo (Latin “I believe”) as ...
Issue: August 2025

Heart Speaks to Heart

By Father Lewis King
Fr. King is filling in for Fr. Clark this month. When contemporary Catholics come across the notion of “defending the faith,” we often experience mixed emotions: Although there is something noble-...
Issue: August 2025

Navigating Negativity // Navegando la negatividad

By Father Pablo Migone
On May 12th, 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV held an audience with the many journalists who had been eagerly waiting to see white smoke emerge from the roof of the Sistine Chapel. He concluded...
Issue: July 2025

Fr. Flaviano Amatuli, A Man on a Mission // P. Flaviano Amatuli, un hombre en misión

By Father Pablo Migone
In early 1968, a newly Ordained, young Italian priest of the Comboni Missionaries arrived in Oaxaca, Mexico, to work with the Indigenous Chinantec people. Founded in 1867 by St. Daniel Comboni, a t...
Issue: July 2025

Word + Eucharist = Mass

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
(Originally published in the September 29, 2005, issue of the Southern Cross) The Catholic “Mass” is a combination of two worship services or “liturgies.” The Latin word missa means “dismissal” o...
Issue: July 2025

So That Where I Am You Also May Be

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
I recently read a unique way of speaking about life after death: “The end of life is not a period, but a comma.” As the Preface for the Mass of the Deceased puts it: “[When we die] life is changed ...
Issue: June 2025

Unexpected Origin of Jubilee Years // El origen inesperado de los Años Jubilares

By Father Pablo Migone
The 2025 worldwide Jubilee, Pilgrims of Hope, was called by Pope Francis in the tradition of Pope Boniface VIII in 1300, who called the first jubilee year for the Catholic Church. Most current expl...
Issue: June 2025

Reflections on Papal Changes

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
On May 8, 2025, on the second day of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis (and ultimately to St. Peter, as Bishop of Rome), the Catholic world reacted with joy at the news: Habemus Pap...
Issue: June 2025

Nicaea Now

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
This year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (in modern Turkey). Before your eyes glaze over and you turn the page, please give me a moment of your time. The council was an extr...
Issue: May 2025

The Mystery of Creation, Nature, and Grace // El misterio de la creación, la naturaleza y la gracia

By Father Pablo Migone
It is not necessary to know how something works to understand that it works. I grew up in the countryside and observed firsthand the work of nature: Seeds sown in the right soil with enough water b...
Issue: May 2025

On Languages of Faith, Part III

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Last month, we began our overview of the Latin language as a way of approaching other ancient languages, especially the two main biblical languages, Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament)...
Issue: May 2025

Live With It

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
I recently complained to my doctor about a condition that wasn’t getting any better. The doctor’s response: “That’s life.” I didn’t know if I should switch doctors or think and pray hard about what...
Issue: April 2025

Fulfillment in Work: A Lesson from a Waffle House Visit // Plenitud en el trabajo: una lección de una visita a Waffle House

By Father Pablo Migone
On a Monday afternoon, I swung the door open into a Waffle House. To my surprise, I was the only customer. I sat at the bar. Before the waitress approached me, the cook looked over my way and asked...
Issue: April 2025

On Languages of Faith, Part II

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Latin was the language of the Italian province called “Latium” (the modern-day region Lazio), whose capital was Rome (Roma); legend dates the founding of that city to the year 753 before Christ. Be...
Issue: April 2025

The Question of Belief: Is There a God?

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
The fool says in his heart: There is no God [above]” (Ps 14:1). Does God exist? This is not a question that most of us give any thought. We take it for granted that there is some perfect being “up ...
Issue: March 2025

Commitment as a Path to Happiness // El Compromiso como camino a la Felicidad

By Father Pablo Migone
Years ago, I listened to a fascinating story on the radio about the inner workings of the mind. The scientist interviewed described a recent study he conducted that yielded shocking results: People...
Issue: March 2025

On Languages of Faith

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
Recently the Southern Cross asked me what I would think of writing a series of “ancient language mini-lessons.” Could I find a way to introduce “engaging” Hebrew, Greek, and Latin in a small space,...
Issue: March 2025

Grateful

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Somebody (Shakespeare?) said, “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” Meister Eckhart, a German mystic, (1260–1368), wrote, “If the only prayer you ever say is ‘thank you,’ ...
Issue: February 2025

The Legacy of Bishop Augustin Vérot // El legado del obispo Augustin Vérot

By Father Pablo Migone
In early 2024, I visited St. Paul Catholic Church in Ellicott City, Maryland, an old mill town a few miles west of Baltimore. The town had been terribly devastated a few years prior by flash floods...
Issue: February 2025

A Witness to – and Maker of – History

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
In the Jubilee (Holy) Year of 1950, Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara of the Diocese of Savannah–Atlanta (as it was then called) presided over the Diocese of Savannah’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The Ca...
Issue: February 2025

Memories of Camp Villa Marie

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
As the Diocese of Savannah celebrates its 175th anniversary, my memory waxes nostalgic. I remember, from long ago, Camp Villa Marie on the Isle of Hope. The property has hosted a variety of program...
Issue: December 2024

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother to All // Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Madre de Todos

By Father Pablo Migone
The Virgin Mary appeared four times to St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin in December 1531, only ten years after the defeat of the Aztec Empire in Mexico by the Spanish. This time period marked the int...
Issue: December 2024

Merry Christ-Mass!

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The Church’s celebration of the Incarnation of the Son of God in the man Jesus of Nazareth begins with the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, called “Christmas” in English (“the Ch...
Issue: December 2024

Kerygma

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Have you ever heard of an “elevator speech”? If you only had a brief elevator ride with someone, how would you succinctly express an idea to them? How would you sum up your thoughts in a few brief ...
Issue: November 2024

Exploring the Communion of Saints

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
St. Paul concludes his Second Letter to the Corinthians with this Trinitarian blessing: ἡ χάρις τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ  καὶ ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν. ...
Issue: November 2024

Why a Church Wedding?

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
In the next several months, I am going to have the distinct pleasure and privilege of presiding over the weddings of two of my grandnieces. One of them, Caroline, will be married at her home parish...
Issue: November 2024

The Democracy of the Dead // La democracia de los muertos

By Father Pablo Migone
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is the holiest site of the Christian faith. Its roof encloses the most sacred places linked to the life and death of Jesus. As you enter the ancient bu...
Issue: October 2024

The Healing Power of Jesus // El Poder Sanador de Jesus

By Father Pablo Migone
Some years ago, I received a phone call to visit an elderly lady who was near death. I was welcomed by several members of her family at the door, and was quickly led to the bedroom where she lay on...
Issue: October 2024

A Journey Through the Present Moment

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
C. S. Lewis dedicated The Screwtape Letters (1942) to his great friend and fellow “Inkling,” J. R. R. Tolkien. Both were Christian apologists in an increasingly secular Britain – Lewis a Protestant...
Issue: October 2024

A Return to Civility

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Remember that school yard taunt “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”? As we have moved on from the school yard, we find that this may not be so. Words do hurt, and l...
Issue: September 2024

Si vales valeo

By Father Pablo Migone
The first day of Latin class in seminary we translated a few simple sentences from the great Roman philosopher and politician Cicero, among them the opening line of a letter to his wife: “Si vales ...
Issue: September 2024

Happy Are They

By Father Douglas K. Clark
The Baltimore Catechism famously offered this response to its sixth question, “Why did God make me?”: “God made me to know him, to love him, and to serve him in this world, and to be happy with him...
Issue: September 2024

Happy People Know Their Dignity

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
In 1984 I was invited to return to my alma mater, St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, as an alumnus in residence. In the course of an address to the seminarians, I remarked that I was “just a...
Issue: August 2024

Beware the Promises of the Occult // Cuidado con las promesas del ocultismo

By Father Pablo Migone
Some time ago, I was walking down the street in downtown Savannah in my priestly clothes with a friend, and a gentleman approached us. I thought he may ask for money, but he simply wanted to chat w...
Issue: August 2024

Cultivate Virtues to Combat Vices

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
In a college Latin course, I was exposed to a medieval “best seller” – the Dialogus Miraculorum (“The Dialogue of Miracles,” Book IV, De Tentatione, “On Temptation”) of the Cistercian Prior Caesari...
Issue: August 2024

Grab His Hand!

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
I earned a degree in counseling while in the seminary. Into my first year of ordination, stationed in Savannah, I was invited by a state-run program to counsel persons addicted to alcohol. But in t...
Issue: July 2024

Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The geography of my life is simple: Over the span of my long life, I seem to have gravitated toward sunnier climates, from Ohio through Virginia and Italy to Georgia. This gravitation was not consc...
Issue: July 2024

I am With You

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
How often have you wondered, “If God is good, why is there war, suffering, and death?” I recently came across a Gospel reflection that tried to address that seemingly unsolvable question. I found t...
Issue: June 2024

Pilgrimage to where Jesus Walked // Peregrinaje donde Jesús Caminó

By Father Pablo Migone
In 1996, the archaeologist priest Fr. Bargil Pixner published a book titled With Jesus Through Galilee According to the Fifth Gospel. The Benedictine monk arrived in Israel in 1969 and dedicated th...
Issue: June 2024

A Pilgrim People

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The image of the People of God on pilgrimage through history is deeply rooted in the Bible and forms part of the Church’s understanding of herself. Last month, we reflected on the Church going fort...
Issue: June 2024

Too Much! A Christian Response to Bad News Fatigue

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Have you found yourself saying, “I’m going to quit watching the news”? I have said it myself. First, it seems the news is always bad. Or, its presentation seems biased and not objective. Or, I’ve g...
Issue: May 2024

A Universal Call to Mission // Llamado Universal a la Misión

By Father Pablo Migone
At most baptisms, I read a passage from the conclusion of the Gospel of Saint Matthew where Jesus gives final instructions to his apostles, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptiz...
Issue: May 2024

The Church Going Forth

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
 During the forty days after his Resurrection from the dead, the risen Lord Jesus appeared to many of his disciples, as Saint Paul bears witness in his summary proclamation of the Gospel of Christ’...
Issue: May 2024

RCIA: Changing, Turning, Leaving, Joining

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
By the time you read this, thousands, maybe even millions, of persons around the world will have converted and become members of the Catholic Church. Many, if not most, of these converts entered th...
Issue: April 2024

True Conversion, Turning Back to God // Verdadera Conversión, Volver al Señor

By Father Pablo Migone
My religion teacher in high school oftentimes drew pictures or wrote inspirational quotes on the board.  He would begin every class with the words “Come Holy Spirit and teach me” while facing the b...
Issue: April 2024

Convert and Believe / μετανοεῖτε καὶ πιστεύετε

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The Gospel according to Saint Mark – the first written account of the active Ministry and the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ – begins with an account of the sudden appearance of John the Baptist ...
Issue: April 2024

Jesus' Obituary

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
When some people reach a certain age, they begin to check the obituaries in the paper to make sure they are not recorded therein. Nowadays, since there are not many newspapers to read, one would ha...
Issue: March 2024

Holy Longing

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Fr. Ronald Rolheiser's book, The Holy Longing, includes a chapter entitled “The Spirituality of Sexuality.” Rolheiser’s presentation is well-balanced between the psychology of sexuality and its rel...
Issue: March 2024

We are Body and Soul // Somos cuerpos y alma

By Father Pablo Migone
WHEN GOD CREATED ALL things, the visible and the invisible, he declared them all good. When in the fullness of time, God took on a human nature and dwelled among us, He redeemed not only the human ...
Issue: March 2024

Male and Female He Created Them: Shining the Light of Faith and Reason into a Faithless and Irrational Darkness

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
On June 10, 2019, the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education issued a guidance for teachers and catechists called “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question...
Issue: February 2024

Advancing a Cause for Beatification // Avance de una Causa de Beatificación

By Father Pablo Migone
In the early months of 2015, I traveled to Rome as Vocation Director of our Diocese along with Bishop Hartmayer for the official annual visit to the now-Father Andrew Larkin who at that time was st...
Issue: February 2024

Sens & Sensibilité

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
In 2024, Valentine’s Day will occur as usual on February 14, but, unusually, so will Ash Wednesday. These two observances seem utterly different, yet both are Christian in their origins, and both c...
Issue: February 2024

Mission

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
The following is taken from the notes of Father Conrad Harkins, O.F.M., vice postulator for the canonization cause of Pedro de Corpa and companions. 1612 was the 15th anniversary of five Francisca...
Issue: December 2023

Richness of Faith in Diversity of Rites // Riqueza de la Fe en la Diversidad de Ritos

By Father Pablo Migone
During My senior year at Aquinas High School in Augusta, I visited Saint Ignatios of Antioch Melkite Church on Merry Street for the first time. My religion teacher, who was a parishioner of Saint I...
Issue: December 2023

Of the Father’s Love Begotten

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The Latin poem Corde natus (“begotten/born of the heart”) by the Christian Roman poet Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (A.D. 348–413) gave rise to the hymn “Of the Father’s Heart Begotten,” better known...
Issue: December 2023

Church Speak

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Go, the Mass is Ended This is a literal translation of Ite Missa est, used in the former Latin Rite. The impression given by this liturgical phrase is that everything is over; you can leave now (f...
Issue: November 2023

Death and Persecution from Syria to Nicaragua // Muerte y Persecución de Siria a Nicaragua

By Father Pablo Migone
Before the Vigil Mass for Palm Sunday in 2013, I checked the headlines on a Catholic news site. My heart sank as I read towards the bottom of the page, “Syrian priest kidnapped as war rages on.” D...
Issue: November 2023

Eucharistia

By Father Douglas K. Clark, STL
The ancient Greek biographer Diogenes Laertius, in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, quotes Aristotle as asking the rhetorical question, “What soon grows old?” His answer was, eucharistia (“gratit...
Issue: November 2023

Love and Marriage

By Monsignor Fred J. Nijem
Why are fewer people getting married these days? I won’t bore you with a lot of statistics regarding the question. To quote only one: in 2006, 50% of young adults said it was very important to marr...

Contributors

Father Douglas K. Clark, STL

Fr. Douglas K. Clark is retired and pastor emeritus of St. Matthew Church, Statesboro.

Father Pablo Migone

Fr. Pablo Migone is Vicar for Mission Advancement of the Diocese of Savannah and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes, Port Wentworth, and Corpus Christi, Pooler.

Padre Pablo Migone es el Vicario para el Avance de la Misión de la Diócesis de Savannah y el Párroco de Corpus Christi en Pooler y Nuestra Señora de Lourdes en Port Wentworth.

Monsignor Fred J. Nijem

Msgr. Fred J. Nijem was pastor emeritus of Sacred Heart Church, Warner Robins.