When the encyclical Laudato Si’ (On Care for our Common Home) was released in 2015, I had high hopes that the Catholic Church in the United States would...
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Readings (Year C): Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21 – 23Psalm 90:3 – 4, 5 – 6, 12 – 13, 14 and 17Colossians 3:1 – 5, 9 – 11Luke 12:13...
“No Irish need apply.” An arrogant Illinois historian once forcefully argued that this phrase—and the experience it represented—was a historical hoax, calling...
If God Were a Great Big Bear By Paul Harbridge, Illustrated by Marta Dorado (Beaming Books, 2025) “God is in me? And you? And the kitten?” My 3-year-old found...
“All priestly formation, particularly that of future priests, is at the heart of evangelization. They, responding to a genuine specific vocation, will inspire...
My children love hearing the story of the time I got into trouble as a kindergartener, the time I had to “sit on the black line” at recess. It would be...
As Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate, many people expect him to continue Pope Francis’ focus on migrants’ rights, a cause he has already promoted in several...
A nation with crumbling infrastructure and climate change-induced natural disasters. Civil unrest and violence fueled by a growing gap between the rich and the...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify This week on Just Politics, host Joan Neal returns to the interview chair for something that is becoming less and...
On July 18, a federal court blocked a law passed in Washington state that would have required clergy to report child abuse when shared in the confessional...
