“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” • John 20:2b Once a year, we as church stand in this same spot and...
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This year, reading the gospels during Holy Week, I can’t help but put myself in Mary’s shoes. What must it have been like to see Jesus at the cross, her little...
“It’s a weird job for a Jew in Tennessee, but somebody’s got to do it.” This is how A. J. Levine, a professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at the...
Readings (Year C): Acts 10:34a, 37 – 43Psalm 118:1 – 2, 16 – 17, 22 – 23Colossians 3:1 – 4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b – 8John...
A new release from Boston-area novelist Jennifer Haigh ponders questions of causality and randomness in the lives of ordinary people striving for meaning in a...
Nearly a century ago, a Spanish priest named Josemaría Escrivá founded a religious movement intended to summon Christians of all races, ages, and social...
Small Changes Michael Kiwanuka (Polydor, 2024) In the end, the world will be saved by beauty. This was one of Dorothy Day’s favorite quotes from Dostoyevsky...
Our local pandemic lockdown had been in effect for over a month on April 26, 2020. My two daughters had returned from college to finish their semesters, and my...
Longing brought me back to the hope of the resurrection. A longing stronger than any I had known, in the midst of a loss unlike any that came before. Eighteen...
“I fully expect the church to be persecuted,” says Bishop of El Paso Mark J. Seitz. Seitz has just spoken out strongly against the anti-immigrant policies of U...
