It’s a shiny, brand-new year. So let’s talk about heaven! With one caveat: I’m not going to strip-mine a lot of theology here. My brain is too small to...
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“Does Jesus pump the blood into my veins?” wondered my intrigued and somewhat confused 3-year-old after I explained that God incarnate lives in her heart. Her...
I look out my front window and see the nativity scene in my neighbor’s yard. Another family a few doors down also has their crèche out, complete with a star...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 62:1 – 5Psalms 89:4 – 5, 16 – 17, 27, 29Acts 13:16 – 17, 22 – 25Matthew 1:1 – 25 Reflection: Our...
Growing up, I assumed that the Catholic Church taught that people who were not Christian could not go to heaven. That view never sat well with me, so it was a...
Swinging on the Garden Gate By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Skinner House Books, 2022) When I opened Swinging on the Garden Gate, I was expecting a sort of...
As a child, sometimes I woke in the morning to a thumping sound from the living room, as though someone was hitting the floor with a wooden mallet. That sound...
It was a warm summer night back in the early 2010s. I was sitting on a patio sipping sangria with a friend I’ll call Jim—a man about a decade and a half older...
The Sunday Angelus is usually an opportunity for Pope Francis to reflect on the gospel of the day, but the first Sunday in October came just a few days after...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 7:10 – 14Psalms 24:1 – 2, 3 – 4, 5 – 6.Romans 1:1 – 7Matthew 1:18 – 24 Reflection: The gift of...
