On February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI did something that had only happened four times in the previous 1,000 years of the papacy. He resigned. It...
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Readings (Year A): Numbers 6:22 – 27Psalms 67:2 – 3, 5, 6, 8Galatians 4:4 – 7Luke 2:16 – 21 Reflection: May Jesus be born through us...
The Shepherd’s Story By Jimmy Dunne, illustrated by Ivan Kravets (Loyola Press, 2022) Christmas is the perfect story of encounter. I realized this when I was...
“I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” This is the last line of the creed Catholics profess at Mass each week. The...
It’s a shiny, brand-new year. So let’s talk about heaven! With one caveat: I’m not going to strip-mine a lot of theology here. My brain is too small to...
“Does Jesus pump the blood into my veins?” wondered my intrigued and somewhat confused 3-year-old after I explained that God incarnate lives in her heart. Her...
I look out my front window and see the nativity scene in my neighbor’s yard. Another family a few doors down also has their crèche out, complete with a star...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 62:1 – 5Psalms 89:4 – 5, 16 – 17, 27, 29Acts 13:16 – 17, 22 – 25Matthew 1:1 – 25 Reflection: Our...
Growing up, I assumed that the Catholic Church taught that people who were not Christian could not go to heaven. That view never sat well with me, so it was a...
Swinging on the Garden Gate By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Skinner House Books, 2022) When I opened Swinging on the Garden Gate, I was expecting a sort of...
