The Life Ahead Directed by Edoardo Ponti (Netflix, 2020) Set in the southern Italian port of Bari, Edoardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead weaves together the lives of...
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What I miss most about going to church is the choir. During this long year of pandemic, when I only entered our parish building twice, that’s the piece of...
Years ago, when I was in graduate school, I had a wonderful spiritual director who would often ask me this simple question when I was in the midst of...
Readings (Year B): Exodus 24:3–8Psalm 116:12–13, 15–16, 17–18Hebrews 9:11–15Mark 14:12–16, 22–26 Reflection: Come to the table As a young boy, I vividly recall...
In February, the Pew Research Center published the most comprehensive survey to date of Black faith in America. This report is a major resource for...
For years I’ve had the word gelassenheit (literally: “serenity”) framed on my wall. In college, I studied existentialism and phenomenology and came across the...
Judas and the Black Messiah Directed by Shaka King (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2021) It has been more than 50 years since the FBI conspired with the Chicago Police...
Strawberry Mansion Langhorne Slim (Dualtone Records, 2021) First, let’s deal with the name. It’s a self-deprecating joke. He’s really Sean Scolnick, a nice...
After Whiteness By Willie James Jennings (Eerdmans, 2020) It is safe to say most Catholics have never heard of theologian Willie James Jennings. That is not...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marybeth Redmond, who serves in the Vermont House of Representatives, advocated for the Vermont legislature to grant...
