Caught up in some painful drama as a college student, many years ago, I sought solitude in a forest near the school and knelt to pray beside a fallen log...
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Somewhere, women were laughing. The sound carried me back to my childhood, when I’d lie in my bed comforted by the voices of my older sisters talking in their...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify In 2025, Congress passed HR 1, referred to by the Trump administration as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but also...
My son Quentin died by suicide on April 26, 2020. Every Catholic parish has people like me who bear the sorrow of suicide loss, as well as those whose loved...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 5:1–7Psalm 80:9, 12, 13–14, 15–16, 19–20Philippians 4:6–9Matthew 21:33–43 Reflection: We are co-workers in God’s vineyard Oh boy...
Jesus got angry from time to time. All four of the gospels testify to this. This should be no surprise. The Councils of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381)...
The rain stopped for no one in Chicagoland this summer, Pope Leo XIV included. On August 11, rolling walls of dark clouds loomed from all directions under an...
When we consider the situation of migrant children in the United States, the reality is troubling. More than 6,200 children have been detained by U.S...
The common life of culture can only exist within what Pope Leo XIV in Magnifica Humanitas (On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial...
