I Am Not There Anymore The Clientele (Merge Records, 2023) Odds are you remember the complex feelings of being riveted, exhilarated, and challenged when you...
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In October 2011, I visited the Holy Land as a pilgrim. We stayed in the Old City, near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Every morning, when we went to Mass at...
I turned in a tiny, twin bed to see the digital clock: 4:30 a.m. I accept with a groan the realization that in less than an hour, I could be dressed and in...
When I first meet Sister Norma Pimentel over Zoom, not five minutes have gone by before she needs to pause and take an important call. “I’m sorry,” she says in...
Women’s religious congregations have a rich treasure that has remained relatively hidden from the rest of the world. Historians and genealogists are only now...
Readings (Year B): Isaiah 63:16B – 17, 19B; 64:2 – 7Psalms 80:2 – 3, 15 – 16, 18 – 191 Corinthians 1:3 – 9Mark 13:33...
Catholics have a veritable treasury of beliefs and traditions about Jesus’ family life, but some of these are only tenuously connected with the information we...
There is a story in the Bible that we don’t hear in the Sunday readings or cited in papal documents. There’s no uplifting message of morality or liberation...
Being the oldest of four brothers, I have found the bond of siblinghood to be a tremendous blessing in my life. Like any healthy relationship, it takes a...
