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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy Josephine von DohlenWASHINGTON(CNS) -- After almost 12 years as an Episcopal priest, Deacon Jonathan Erdmanentered into full communion with the Catholic Church along with his family in2016 and a year later, he is becoming a Catholic priest.Hewill be ordained a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. PeterJune 29.Thisspring, 590 men entered the priesthood in dioceses throughout the United States,according to a report released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops inWashington. The report is based on an annual study that the Center for Applied Research inthe Apostolate conducted for the USCCB.Leadingto his joining the Catholic Church, Deacon Erdman felt something in thebackground repeatedly calling him to the church, but he said he continuallyfound new ways to distract himself."Ithink often when one hears God calling, a response can be thinking of anexcuse," Deacon Erdman said in a phone interview with Catholic News ServiceJune 14. ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon is increasingly claiming territory once held exclusively by department stores and it's doing so again, essentially placing a dressing room in your house....
PHOENIX (AP) -- Alan Schwandt was rushing to his second job of the day when his phone rang with another desperate Phoenix homeowner calling about a broken air conditioner in the midst of a scorching heat wave....
PHOENIX (AP) -- The first day of summer is forecast to bring some of the worst heat the southwestern U.S. has seen in years....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian-made, armed drone in southern Syria on Tuesday, marking the third time this month that that the U.S. has downed aircraft affiliated with Syrian President Bashar Assad's government....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier after his lengthy detention in North Korea was a "total disgrace," and said if the college student had been returned home to the U.S. earlier, "I think the result would have been a lot different."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea, South Korean officials said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that Americans who are "stupid" enough to still want to travel to North Korea should be required to sign a waiver absolving the U.S. government of any blame should they be harmed while there....
JER 20: 10-13; ROM 5:12-15; MATTHEW 10: 26-33Anecdote: Fearless St. Teresa. St. Teresa of Avila is famous as a theologian, reformer of the Carmelite Order, and spiritual advisor to the great medieval Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. But Teresa's ministry was not well received in her community. Her sisters had grown lax in faith and practice, and when she called for reform their response was to throw her out of convents that she herself had established. On one occasion, she was turned out at night in the middle of a rainstorm. Dressed only in her coarse wool habit, she climbed into a donkey cart and was riding along when the wheel of the cart hit a ditch and the cart turned over, dumping Teresa into the mud. She sat there, in mud-soaked wool, looked up to heaven, and said, "Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder that you don't have many." But frustrated as she was, Teresa clung to God. In one of her medi...
