Readings (Year A): Sirach 15:15 – 20Psalms 119:1 – 2, 4 – 5, 17 – 18, 33 – 341 Corinthians 2:6 – 10Matthew 5:17 – 37...
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James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify What does it mean to respond seriously to great harm? What if that harm stretches over centuries, from slavery and the Jim...
Canada is poised next month to expand a vast social experiment in state-sponsored “medical assistance in dying.” Beginning, unpleasantly, on St. Patrick’s Day...
Author Wendell Berry famously lives in Henry County, Kentucky, which went for presidential nominee Donald Trump by a 46 percent margin in 2020. Still, Berry...
“I just wanted someone to listen,” said the shirtless man propped on pillows in a hospital bed, his voice cracking and eyes welling as an oxygen tank hissed...
There is longing in his face, softness and the serpent’s fall in mildness, in aching, exclusion next to misery. Hands knotted of his own accord, yielding...
Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
A very common way of presenting Catholic social teaching is the formula “see, judge, act.” The method comes to prominence in the social encyclicals of St. Pope...
I don’t go to museums much. Not because I don’t like them, but simply because—you know. Maybe for the same reason you don’t go. Museums take time, and life is...
