Readings (Year A): Exodus 17:3 – 7Psalms 95:1 – 2, 6 – 7, 8 – 9Romans 5:1-2, 5-8John 4:5 – 42 Reflection: Ask for living water...
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Earlier this month, a former special agent leaked an internal memo from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Richmond, Virginia field office. The memo claimed...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The idea of life–especially intelligent life–on other planets has long captured the contemporary imagination. Despite the...
A television series doesn’t have to tell all the truths about life, so it’s forgivable that Netflix’s Firefly Lane is a bit myopic in its narrative of two...
In the middle of a pandemic, in the midst of shutdowns, the politicization of vaccines, and increasing attention paid to the nation’s violent acts of racism...
A swooping hawk, Gabriel descends to a barren, unexpectant earth, his feathers a train of candles settled into a prolonged burn. Mary receives him, a haloed...
We never made it to the seven churches on those freezing Holy Thursday nights. Spring may have sprouted on the calendar but not tonight. This was no pilgrimage...
The following is an excerpt from Just Church: Catholic Social Teaching, Synodality, and Women by Phyllis Zagano (Paulist Press, 2023). It can seem simplistic...
Today, as a middle-aged journalist who covers news in the Catholic Church, I often work from a comfortable home office. But 25 years ago, I was a 21-year-old U...
Readings (Year A): Genesis 12:1 – 4aPsalms 33:4 – 5, 18 – 19, 20, 22.2 Timothy 1:8b – 10Matthew 17:1 – 9 Reflection: Leveraging...
