"Sixty-two percent of New Hampshire adults identified themselves as Christians last year, the American Religious Identification Survey for 2008 reported. This is a 23 percent decline from 1990, when 85 percent of adults called themselves Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and other Christians...N...

'Vulnerability brings us together' ELIZABETH RENZETTI From Saturday's Globe and Mail December 26, 2008 at 11:37 PM EST "[Jean Vanier] is officially retired, and not responsible for the day-to-day running of the foyers. 'Now, I'm free to do what I like, and what I like is to announce the message: Tha...

We need to appreciate the difference between "ministry" and "apostolate" in the Church. In this regard, Vatican II is most helpful: "They [the lay faithful] exercise the apostolate in fact by their activity directed to the evangelization and sanctification of men and to the penetrating and perfectin...

Publicist Lauren Levy emails me April 6: "Hi Luke, As I’m working on getting some online PR for Rabbi Sherre Hirsh’s amazing WE PLAN, GOD LAUGHS, I can’t tell you how pleased I was to read your article on it. I would be delighted to send you an advance copy for review, or set ...

I’ve been wanting to write on the apostolate of the laity for some time now. I just haven’t gotten around to it – too busy with working/failing on my apostolate I guess...I know. Yet today, I read Leon’s piece, Laity on the Line . It's a good reminder of our calling (Eph. 4:1-3) as lay membe...

So a couple of weeks ago, the publicist for Rabbi Sherre Hirsch’s first book, We Plan, God Laughs, invited me to email in questions for the rabbi. I did. Five days later, the publicist emails me to say that the rabbi will not be doing any more interviews because of family stuff. I was able to ...

We're getting close to Super Tuesday, and the heat is on. There's excitement, dismay and campaigning to the end. It's unavoidable that some will argue their case strongly, but there's also a risk to think we can make this difficult voting decision for others. As lay people called to engage in the so...

Someone opened a new barbershop next to my donut place.  One of the great thrills of my life is Wednesday mornings when my grandson and I go out for donuts ( our "special time" as he calls it).  Today I visited the new barbershop and discovered it was a split from another barbers...