Weekly insight and thoughts from Fr. Damian Zuerlein
Pastor’s Letter 10.13.19
Dear Friends, The Catholic Church teaches us to work for justice for all people. The Church proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society. Every human person is made in the image of God;...
Pastor’s Letter 10.6.19
Dear Friends, There was a wonderful essay in last week’s Wall Street Journal by Sarah Hurwitz who wrote about her experience of finally embracing her Jewish faith as an adult. It took her until she was 36 years old and functioning successfully in the world before she...
Pastor’s Letter 9.29.19
Dear Friends, At the theology conference I attended last week, I entered into a fascinating conversation with a couple of other attendees concerning what the scholar Charles Taylor calls a “false narrative of subtraction.” Taylor says that today’s Christians have a...
Pastor’s Letter 9.22.19
The theology conference I am attending this week is exploring Catholic imagination through different mediums. You may wonder why the imagination is important to religion at all, but, really, it is very important. A brilliant theologian, Fr. David Tracy, wrote a book in the early 80’s entitled The Analogical Imagination, where he explored the use of the imagination
Pastor’s Letter 9.15.19
Dear Friends, You should have received a copy of the Annual Report in the mail this week. If not, there are copies at the entryways to the church. Please take one. If you did not receive one by mail, then it is possible that the parish does not have an up-to-date...
Pastor’s Letter 9.8.19
Dear Friends, Last weekend, Pope Francis named thirteen people to be Cardinals in the church. They will serve as close advisors to Pope Francis and will be involved in the choosing of the new pope when Francis retires or dies. One of those chosen has a connection with...
Pastor’s Letter 9.1.19
Dear Friends, I am in Chicago this weekend officiating at the wedding of the daughter of a friend of mine. However, I am with you in prayer and thought this holiday weekend. Labor Day reminds me of our interconnectedness; we need one another in order to survive. Here...
Pastor’s Letter 8.25.19
Dear Friends, It seems like not a day goes by when there is not some discussion of immigration in the news. There is even an attitude developing now in Washington to make legal immigration more difficult. By any assessment, the current system of immigration in this...
Pastor’s Letter 8.18.19
Dear Friends, Last week, our parish leadership team attended the Global Leadership Summit, a national video conference highlighting leaders and teaching others to do likewise. The Archdiocese hosted the local viewing at Creighton. One of the points made at the...
Pastor’s Letter 8.11.19
Dear Friends, As a child, I knew that once the locusts starting singing in the evenings that the new school year was not far away. I heard them a few weeks ago when I was sitting out on the front porch and those memories came rushing back. And, sure enough, school is...
Pastor’s Letter 8.4.19
Dear Friends, Today’s Sunday gospel is not an easy one for our culture. The judgement of Jesus on the man who stored up treasure for himself is not one that middle class and wealthy Americans can rejoice in. “God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be...
Pastor’s Letter 7.28.19
Dear Friends, One of the tasks of every Catholic and every Catholic parish is to reach out to those who do not know Jesus and invite them into a relationship with the God who loves them. This work has always been called evangelization, which simply means, “telling the...