I saw the statue of Mother Teresa during a visit to the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. earlier this year. A pleasing and apt tribute, but a little unsatisfying, and it took me a minute to figure out why: the image is fixed and still, while its subject was so oftenContinue reading “The risk of being more like Mother Teresa”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Sunday Best: a NH Catholic Church re-opens
One of the old ethnic churches near my New Hampshire home has been re-opened after being shuttered for 15 years. Bishop Peter Libasci asked an order of priests dedicated to the Latin Mass to set up shop, and the order obliged. The first Sunday Mass under their auspices at St. Stanislaus Church in Nashua wasContinue reading “Sunday Best: a NH Catholic Church re-opens”
On Amoris Laetita and one priest’s counsel: “stay as close as you can”
Pope Francis has written The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia), and it evokes words that had a profound effect on my life – words uttered a decade before Pope Francis even became a priest, and a year before I was born. The pope’s apostolic exhortation reinforced the Catholic Church’s recognition of the truth about the dignity andContinue reading “On Amoris Laetita and one priest’s counsel: “stay as close as you can””
Ellen Kolb 