November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Patti Smith’s landmark debut album, Horses. A blend of poetry and back-to-basics rock and roll the...
Spirituality
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
My Catholic vocabulary expanded on March 7, 2020 when Pope Francis announced the Synod on Synodality. I knew what a synod was because the church had been...
“And so [Anna] turned [Mary’s] bedroom into a sanctuary. . .”(Infancy Gospel of James 6:4) There are gospels that aren’t part of our Bible, what we call...
Legend goes that the Virgin Mary gave the rosary to St. Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order. Dominic had been battling the Catharists, heretics who denied...
Blessed are those . . . who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. • Psalm 84:5 (NIV) Late one spring, writes Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales...
While browsing a folder of religious iconography, I came across an unusual sight: the image of a saint with a swan at his side: St. Hugh of Lincoln, the...
My children love hearing the story of the time I got into trouble as a kindergartener, the time I had to “sit on the black line” at recess. It would be...
My youngest son woke from a nightmare at 4:00 a.m. He is 11 years old and nightmares happen, but this dream was very specific: Government agents from...
In 2016, Lisa Campbell, a Pentecostal convert to Catholicism, began attending religious communities that celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass, sometimes...
