sheryl collmer Archives - Corps of Renewal And Charity

US Coffee Circle of Bishops Meets in Baltimore

by Sheryl | Nov 18, 2025 | Guest Columns

OPINION – The fall general assembly of the USCCB lumbered into session last week at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, as they do each November. The ponderous livestream of bishops, all doing their best to be flavorless, was, to say the least, somnolent....

Do Not Be Conformed to the World… or Church Leaders

by Sheryl | Sep 18, 2025 | Guest Columns

OPINION – The word of the day for Catholics is “unity.” For the sake of it, entire congregations are ghettoized (TLM), bishops exiled (Strickland), faculties gutted (Sacred Heart), and dioceses fractured (Charlotte). Strange to think that the peculiar synodality...

The Tenebrae of Maximilian Kolbe

by Sheryl | Aug 29, 2025 | Guest Columns

OPINION – During hours of darkness in Holy Week, the Church observes the peculiar liturgy of Tenebrae. As the Office progresses, the candles on the lampstand are extinguished one by one, until darkness is total. It’s a mournful liturgy, to express the desolation...

Thank Heaven for Little Girls

by Sheryl | Jul 25, 2025 | Guest Columns

OPINION – Our collective grief, especially here in Texas where we knew multiple generations of girls who spent the happiest of summer times at Camp Mystic, is a heavy lead blanket. The death toll keeps rising, and there are still so many missing. Texas reels to...

Make Straight the Way

by Sheryl | May 8, 2025 | Guest Columns

OPINION – It is so much easier to destroy than to build. It takes barely a second and hardly any effort to tear something down; it requires no imagination, dedication, or moral perseverance. Watch a young child carefully build a crenellated castle out of blocks,...