Whenever the prophet Malachi pops up at Mass, I think of a dark comedy from 1992 called Death Becomes Her. The former is a bleak prophet with nothing good to...
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It’s not without some degree of pride, and equal parts delight, that my children’s most requested bedtime song at the moment is the Litany of the Saints. I...
Father Maurice Nutt, C.Ss.R. is a priest, author, spiritual director, and professor at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri. There is no...
Readings (Year A): Proverbs 31:10 – 13, 19 – 20, 30 – 31Psalms 128:1 – 2, 3, 4 – 51 Thessalonians 5:1 – 6Matthew 25:14...
In our Season 3 finale, Just Politics engages in conversation with one of the fiercest advocates for democracy in U.S. politics today: Rep. Jim Clyburn of...
Esther, a lector in one of the parishes in South Bend, Indiana, was recently accosted by a white woman who told her to stop reading at Mass. Not directly...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Suppose a person were able to time-travel back 800 years and visit Catholic Europe. Despite the common notion that...
Who’d have thought that Oppenheimer—a sprawling, three-hour-long, demanding, and often disturbing movie about the physicist behind the first atom bomb—could...
On a brisk winter day in the Kingdom of Sicily, around the year 1250, two young men made a journey to the Shrine of Montevergine. The local villagers, seeing...
Take, Lord, receive . . . my memory. —Ignatius of Loyola As kids—up to seven of us sharing two bedrooms—we were each Mother-apportioned one cardboard carton in...
