On the morning of Jesus’ resurrection, while darkness still covers the Earth, Mary Magdalene braves the journey to Jesus’ tomb with only an oil lamp to light...
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Readings (Year C): Acts 8:5-8, 14-17Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 201 Peter 3:15-18John 14:15-21 Reflection: Jesus calls us to be united in the love of God Let...
Prices keep going up. Neighbors are picked up off the streets and sent to detention camps. War ravages the Middle East. There may not be much to laugh...
The only thing I really knew Iceland for was its hot dogs, sold from a stand called Bæjarins Beztu Pylsur. Novelist John Green reviewed them on a five-star...
As a queer Catholic couple, my fiancée and I had wondered how God might want us to build a family. Then, as we were preparing for our wedding in early 2020...
Along the beach by the Mission Point Lighthouse facing the Grand Traverse Bay in northern Michigan, visitors’ shoes crunch over millions of shells that are on...
Readings (Year A): Acts 6:1–7Psalm 33:1–2, 4–5, 18–191 Peter 2:4–9John 14:1–12 Reflection: How can we do the works that Jesus did? Her name is Keira, and she...
Leonel Palacios had a dream. He left El Salvador in 2011, when he was 18, after his brother was murdered by members of Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, one of the...
Meeting the Enemy By Kevin J. O’Brien (Fortress Press, 2025) Some faith groups have called for fossil fuel divestment as a way to stifle climate change. But...
In a spring afternoon in 2005, after receiving my master’s degree in counseling from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, I had an important stop to make...
