Faith-based groups—including Catholics—have successfully asked a sporting goods store to stop selling assault rifles, tech companies to ban the transmission of...
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On the second story of a community college art museum in Kansas, a motley gathering of anti-death penalty advocates gathered to hear things one doesn’t...
Readings (Year A): Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-101 Corinthians 1:26-31Matthew 5:1-12a Reflection: Christ has no body but yours The gospel...
Like most pet owners, I know that my three-year-old Siberian Husky named Rahner (yes, after the German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner) has a distinctive...
Is It God’s Will? By Brandon Ambrosino (Morehouse Publishing, 2025) Brandon Ambrosino, a convert to Catholicism and professor at Villanova University—Pope Leo...
Pope Francis said, “My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every...
Since 2008, every year before Christmas I have posted an invitation at the website I shepherd, inviting people to listen for a word to guide them in the year...
The rich young man who approaches Jesus in Matthew’s gospel already keeps the commandments. He wants to know if he should do more to have eternal life. “If you...
A Vatican commission has again said “no” to women deacons, while leaving the door cracked. Opening it wider can’t be a task for women alone. Following the...
