Readings (Year B): Acts 1:1-11Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Eph 1:17-23Mk 16:15-20 Reflection: Seek Jesus in everyday places When I was a child, on a lazy sunny day, I...
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Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). On Palm Sunday in 1942, a traumatized Jewish child knocked on the...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify Some of the most popular and well-known Catholic pilgrimage sites are places where Mary the Mother of Jesus is believed to have...
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
Being Catholic used to mean going to church. That’s what Catholics did before the Second Vatican Council, and we did it a lot. Then came Vatican II...
The grief around weaning all four of my children still echoes in my heart to this day. To know that perhaps never again will my body be capable of giving life...
Mary Jane Murphy (who asked to use a pseudonym to protect her new parish job) worked in parish ministry for decades without hearing of the ministerial...
Readings (Year B): Acts 10:25 – 26, 34 – 35, 44 – 48Psalms 98:1, 2 – 3, 3 – 41 John 4:7 – 10John 15:9 – 17...
Not content with creating mountains of fast-fashion throwaways that are visible from space, we earthbound folks are taking to our near heavens to find brave...
Jessica Hooten Wilson was raised to believe that “Christians should dwell on the good and the beautiful,” she writes in her introduction to Flannery...
