A long time ago in a Midwestern state far, far away, I gave a talk in a parish gymnasium. A crowd of patient parents, squirming children, and older folks with...
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Home schooling, once a niche option for countercultural groups, has become more mainstream. Data from the Census Bureau indicate that between 1999 and 2012 the...
“Do you feed your children macaroni?” This was an actual question that 19th-century officials surveying the Lower East Side of New York City would ask Italian...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify With the help of NETWORK’s historian, Mara Rutten, we explore the 50-year history of U.S. Catholic sisters’...
Readings (Year C): 2 Kings 5:14 – 17Psalms 98:1, 2 – 3, 3 – 42 Timothy 2:8 – 13Luke 17:11 – 19 Reflection: Look for places of...
I am personally weary of violence, but I continue to feel a strong commitment to the suffering poor of Central America. . . . God knows why He continues to...
Two things you can do with a rock: you can add it to a pile of stones stacked atop one another in layers, the ones at the top pressing down to the ones...
Holy Ghost Power The Hillbilly Thomists (CD Baby, 2022) As close readers of Catholic media may already know, The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of Dominican...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify One of the best-known of Jesus’ parables is the story commonly referred to as the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” The...
The song “Surface Pressure” from the Disney movie Encanto resonates with me. I was raised to be of service to others: My family and I did some form of...
