Peter Stampfel’s 20th Century in 100 Songs Peter Stampfel (Louisiana Red Hot Records, 2021) In 2001 folk musician Peter Stampfel set out to select one song for...
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I found myself incredibly angry in 2020. It seemed to be the year where all the tension inside me, all the injustice around me, all the indifference I was...
Earlier this year, a lot of (sometimes misleading) controversy swirled around the question of abortion, Catholic politicians, and communion. This isn’t a new...
Readings (Year B): Isaiah 53:10–11Psalm 33:4–5, 18–20, 22Hebrews 4:14–16Mark 10:35–45 Reflection: Great service I once attended a national Catholic conference...
Who am I going to be anymore? Antonia had asked. . . . No longer a teacher at the college, no longer volunteering and serving on half a dozen boards, no longer...
The damage Hurricane Ida inflicted on Louisiana was terrible—second only to Katrina 16 years to the day before Ida—but pretty much what forecasters expected...
Called: A Memoir By Mark Redmond (Onion River Press, 2021) I cannot think of a better example of someone truly living their life’s vocation than Mark Redmond...
Breath has long been a way I could steady myself in anxious moments. When the pandemic hit the world, in Ireland where I live we went into full lockdown off...
Readings (Year B): Wisdom 7:7–11Psalm 90:12–17Hebrews 4:12–13Mark 10:17–30 Reflection: God is not a minimalist. With all the rage around minimalism these days...
Having grown up in a terribly emotionally and often physically abusive family, I had two refuges. One was the woods and waters surrounding Theodore Roosevelt’s...
