On this Palm Sunday I think that it would be good to remember twenty missionaries who experienced a violent death in mission lands in 2020. These priests, seminarians, religious, lay women, and lay men were witnesses to the passion and love of the heart of Jesus. Let me list the names of these twenty missionaries, their country of origin, and the country in which they were killed:
With the availability of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been asked for guidance by a number of parishioners about the morality of taking one of the vaccines. Even though I wrote about this several weeks ago, I am going to do it again because I think that there is a need to do so. Let me begin by quoting a statement that the Maryland Catholic Conference posted on March 9, 2021.
Our late and beloved Msgr. Ralph Kuehner (Fr. Ralph) was a tireless advocate for affordable housing in the District of Columbia and in the five Maryland counties in the Archdiocese of Washington. He also was a frequent champion for affordable housing in Annapolis. One thing of which he would wholeheartedly approve were he still here among us would be House Bill 58, which establishes the Workgroup on Minority Homeownership, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Household Wealth Equity. If the bill becomes law, it would require this Workgroup to study and make recommendations to promote homeownership and create wealth-building opportunities for minority households and promote community revitalization through targeted investments in homeownership. The Workgroup would be asked to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly by December 1, 2021.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people have reached out to me because they are feeling anxious, frightened, depressed, but don’t understand why. For that reason I thought that I would write today to present some of the warning signs and symptoms of mental illness, according to the National Alliance for Mental Illness. First let’s review some common signs of mental illness in adults and adolescents: