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By Father Richard Malloy, SJ • Catholic News Service • Posted February 23, 2021
February: a cold and snowy season. An old Jesuit once told me, “February is the longest month.” But good news! Pitchers and catchers are reporting to Florida. Once again, spring training begins! Prediction: Phillies win World Series 2021!
OK, some ideas can sound crazy, but like the little kid in “Angels in the Outfield” kept saying, “It could happen.” Sidenote, that story was written by a Jesuit priest in Scranton in the 1940s. The 1951 black and white version got remade with Danny Glover in the 1994.
As baseball begins, we celebrate Black History Month. Remember the greatness of Jackie Robinson. Ken Burns’ “Baseball” honors Robinson’s dignity, courage, fortitude and tenacity. A star athlete in four sports at UCLA, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army. At Fort Hood, Texas, he refused to sit in the back of a segregated bus and was court-martialed bu
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.Dolores Sheen, standing, a niece of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, and her daughters Lynn McCaddon and Mary Lou Sheen pray at the tomb of the famed evangelist and media pioneer and sainthood candidate at St. Mary s Cathedral in Peoria, Ill., Feb. 4, 2021. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody) .Coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, Ill., applauds as a city traffic operations worker unveils a newly erected sign designating Madison Avenue outside of St. Mary s Cathedral as Honorary Bishop Fulton Sheen Ave. Archbishop Sheen, a candidate for sainthood, was a famed media evangelist, mission promoter and author who is buried at the cathedral. (The Catholic Post/Tom Dermody)
Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1991, Pope John Paul II s eighth encyclical, Redemptoris Missio (The Mission of the Redeemer), was published. In a pontificate so rich in ideas that its teaching has only begun to be digested, Redemptoris Missio stands out as a blueprint for the Catholic future. The vibrant parts of the world Church are living the vision of missionary discipleship to which the encyclical calls us. The dying parts of the world Church have yet to get the message, or, misunderstanding it, have rejected it which is why they re dying. Redemptoris Missio posed a forthright and formidable challenge to comfortable Catholics: look around you and recognize that ours are apostolic times, not Christendom times. Christendom, as Fulton Sheen said in 1974, is over.