Readings (Year C): Malachi 3:19 – 20aPsalms 98:5 – 6, 7 – 8, 92 Thessalonians 3:7 -12Luke 21:5 – 19 Reflection: Persevere in faith, not...
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Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify When we talk about the global history of Catholicism, we may be tempted to portray the church as the unequivocal moral hero...
The School for Good Mothers By Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 2022) “A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. . ...
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us . . . run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” (Heb. 12:1–2) The...
As a liturgical musician, it is easy for some of the annual celebrations to run together in my mind. I usually can’t remember if we sang a certain arrangement...
On a gray spring day, I enter the hospice unit with three other women. Following cues from the nurses, we quietly approach the room of an old woman lying...
“What does it mean to be Black and Catholic?” asked Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Thea Bowman. “It means that I come to my church fully functioning...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Just Politics celebrates Halloween by confronting some of the scariest elements of our pre-election season: election...
Readings (Year C): 2 Maccabees 7:1 – 2, 9 – 14Psalms 17:1, 5 – 6, 8, 152 Thessalonians 2:16 – 3:5Luke 20:27 – 38 Reflection: I...
I recently found myself in conversation on St. Pope John Paul II’s classic 1999 Letter to Artists. In it he writes about how these “ingenious creators of...
