Readings (Year C): Acts 14:21-27Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13Revelation 21:1-5aJohn 13:34 Reflection: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”...
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By now it’s become a cliché that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed social and economic ills that America long swept under the rug. Low wages, weak workplace...
Subversive Habits By Shannen Dee Williams (Duke University Press, 2022) I recently found a book I received as a first communion gift. It is about famous...
For those discerning the priesthood and religious life, celibacy is often one of the main barriers to entry. I spent the latter half of my undergraduate career...
Did Jesus have a real job? This is the question behind “was Jesus a carpenter”—which sounds a bit dismissive: as if teaching, preaching, and...
On March 19 Pope Francis issued a new apostolic constitution for the Roman Curia, the offices that help him govern the Catholic Church. Praedicate Evangelium...
Readings (Year C): Acts 13:14, 43-52Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5Revelation 7:9, 14b-17John 10:27-30 Reflection: God promises consolation These days, it is impossible...
A preacher’s job is harder in the 21st-century United States than in many other places and times. Imagine attending a liturgy and hearing the gospel preached...
In 2003, when I was 33 years old, my mother died. Her body became overwhelmed quite suddenly by infection because of years of use of prednisone to treat the...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Editors’ note: This episode speaks on sexual abuse, trauma, and healing, and contains content that may be disturbing to...
