Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In the Christian tradition, “apocalypse” simply means revelation, or unveiling. Yet somewhere along the...
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There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday)...
When a hockey player at an elite Catholic prep school dies of suicide, leaving a cryptic note referencing the death of another player 20 years earlier, student...
About 25 years ago, during the weekly Friday evening Mass in the living room of the Bishop Dingman House of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, a man entered from...
Across the plateaus, south of the county seat, a monster power shovel the height of a 20-story building loomed on the horizon. Its name was the Silver Spade...
Stephen F. Schneck is former director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America. “Give to Caesar the...
Every time new survey results on Catholic religiosity are released, I tense up in frustration before even looking at the outcomes. Not because I expect to see...
A young man approaches Jesus and asks, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tells him to follow the commandments and love God and his...
Readings (Year C): Wisdom 3:1-9Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6Romans 5:5-11John 6:37-40 Reflection: Not even death can defeat the just The responsorial line in this...
