Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times By D.L. Mayfield (Broadleaf Books, 2022) People who write and speak about Dorothy...
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Less than a year after retiring, Joseph Sclafani went right back to work. He knew that his 30 years of obstetric experience could make a major impact in a...
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...
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...
Won’t You part these dense clouds That I might glimpse the stars Those dancing lights Captivated in their celestial rites? For above this midnight shroud...
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...
