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  1. Bishops unveil Mass revisions

    New missal, the first revision since 1975, will likely be introduced next year

    A historic change in the way Roman Catholics participate in Mass will likely begin Nov. 27, 2011, according to a letter Bishop Edward Braxton sent June 6 to church leaders in the Belleville diocese.


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  2. Astronaut feels special link to God in space visits

    "Keep the Faith" column

    The ancient people of the Levant-present day Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories-believed their gods lived on a massive mountain in the north. The Canaanites called it Mount Zaphon, and to them it represented the heavens.


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  3. Parents question policies of school

    Group to contact archbishop over the spiritual direction at Gateway Academy

    Chesterfield-A group of parents from a school run by a troubled Catholic order says the school coerces their children spiritually and undermines their parental authority-concerns they are bringing to St. Louis' archbishop.


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  4. Darwin exhibit seems far from atheistic propaganda

    "Keep the Faith" column

    "Thanks for coming to a talk with 'meiosis' in the title." In the basement auditorium of the St. Louis Science Center last week, Washington University biology professor Ursula Goodenough acknowledged the 40 or so people in attendance for her lecture, "Sex and Evolution: What Meiotic Sex Is Good For, and What It Has Contributed To the Evolution of Our Kind.


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  5. Lutheran pastor lost tongue to cancer but finds adversity helps him connect

    The Rev. Scott Schmieding sat in an examination room at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where a surgeon had just examined a malignant tumor in the center of his tongue. The tumor was spreading rapidly, the doctor told him. Surgeons would have to remove most, if not all, of the preacher's tongue, and he might never be able to swallow on his own.


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