What difference does the faith of an American president make? In the United States, we go to great pains to keep church and state separate—in theory anyway...
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It begins with light sensitivity and a sudden inability to focus. Is there a storm coming? Did I get enough sleep the night before? These questions are futile...
Remember FOCA cards? Catholic officialdom greeted President Obama’s 2009 inauguration by printing cards to be distributed in every pew across the country...
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...
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...
