Two Sunday morning Masses in Charlotte, North Carolina, seen via video posted on each parish website, tell a story. At St. Peter Catholic Church downtown, a...
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For the past 21 years, I’ve taught at historically Black colleges, and several times during those years the theater department has either hosted or produced a...
Readings (Year B) Acts 10:25–26, 34–35, 44–48Psalm 98:1, 2–3, 3–41 John 4:7–10John 15:9–17 Reflection: Chosen by God To be chosen feels pretty special. A...
Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had...
From 2015–2020, 136 people were executed by state or federal government in the United States. Even if judgments of their guilt were correct, is death an...
When I think of the Lakota way, many sacred items come to mind. The Sun Dance tree. The čhaŋnúŋpa, or sacred pipe. The drum. The prayer flags. “Black Elk, The...
What does Eucharist call us to be? How does Eucharist shape our lives? Scripture scholar and Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere wrote an influential...
Crecí en una incubadora católica, por así decirlo. Pasé toda mi infancia y mis primeros años de adolescencia viviendo en Colombia, Sudamérica, donde más del 90...
As a young kid, I hated when my family and friends sang the “Happy Birthday” song to me. I never minded singing it for others. Yet when people sang for me, it...
Readings (Year B) Acts 9:26–31Psalm 22:26–27, 28, 30, 31–321 John 3:18–24John 15:1-8 Reflection: Constant conversion In today’s first reading, we hear that...
