Betrayal by a friend. It is one of the bitterest cups we ever drink. In the Gospel of John, Jesus speaks movingly at the Last Supper of a new kind of...
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It looks like just another house on just another block in just another American neighborhood. Tidy hostas line the walkway to the front door, pretty wicker...
Ordinary Time, or the season in the liturgical calendar outside of Advent, Lent, and the Christmas and Easter seasons, is a time when the church focuses on the...
Hacksaw Ridge Directed by Mel Gibson (Summit Entertainment, 2016) Based on the life of the World War II medic and conscientious objector who pulled 75...
Scripture scholar and Dominican Sister Barbara Reid took her first Bible course when she was a junior in college. It was an elective. “I was just so amazed at...
The year 2016 gets no love. The close of last year brought cheers from a diverse cross-section of American society, and yet, some great things happened during...
“A poem in the pocket means we will be accompanied wherever we go,” writes Bishop Robert Morneau. Morneau’s words ring true to me. Poems have been sturdy...
We lost so many beloved cultural figures in 2016 that the year might go down in history as the Year of Celebrity Death. The losses hit my generation hard. The...
It is long past time for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to speak out against the evil of today’s racism. The “alt-right” white...
When someone wishes us a Happy New Year, too often the spirit of the cynic is tempted to rise up from its subterranean swamp in our souls. What’s so new about...
