Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM, is the Secretary for Education and Faith Formation at the Diocese of Charleston.
Dr. Seuss got it right. In “Horton Hears a Who” he tells the story of a Suessical elephant who has discovered minuscule human creatures living on what he calls a speck. Horton is committed to protecting […]
No one gathered to fling confetti, blow horns, or set off fireworks at 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2019. Yet a minute later a New Year was about to begin — a new Church year. On […]
One of my all-time favorite lines from the Old Testament readings for Advent comes up on the season’s third Monday. It’s a mysterious and mystical line and, in some ways, an aggravating one. Nearly 1,200 years […]
This is the season when children’s Christmas plays warm our souls. Little angels wearing tinsel halos and wings announce “Peace on earth” — possibly with a lisp. Tykes bearing makeshift shepherd staffs (sometimes fashioned from […]
Signage at the entry to a school near our Lowcountry convent urges students and their families to “Thank Life” at this time of year. It should not have startled me. After all, Thanksgiving Day is […]
The past six weeks’ schedule of celebration upon celebration has been crowded. My own religious community hosted a celebration of our 100th anniversary at what has become our permanent motherhouse in Pennsylvania in mid-September. The […]
Back in the 1970s the African American Catholic Bishops of the U.S. wrote a pastoral letter entitled “Brothers and Sisters to Us.” It took a pointed look at the history of race relations from the […]
On a Saturday in mid-September, my religious community gathered at our motherhouse in Pennsylvania to celebrate the first profession of vows of one of our sisters. The “newbie,” as some might call her, has joined us […]
The 40th anniversary of the riveting visit of Pope St. John Paul II to Yankee Stadium was celebrated Oct. 2, with a reminder of the challenges he posed to affluent Americans. He was already a […]
My Aunt Betty Penn had a gift for teaching geography lessons and Biblical principles in ways that were never preachy or boring. She lived for more than 50 years in Seaside Park, New Jersey, in […]
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