Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
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I work with homeless and at-risk youth. I’ve been doing it for 42 years, during the first couple decades in or around New York City and for the last 20 years...
My 7-year-old recently entered a new stage of life: He got glasses to help him focus in the classroom. He even picked out frames that closely resemble mine...
Imagine you have just read something about Servant of God Dorothy Day. Perhaps you recently rode a Staten Island ferry that bore her name. Maybe you saw Pope...
Readings (Year B): Exodus 20:1 – 17Psalms 19:8, 9, 10, 111 Corinthians 1:22 – 25John 2:13 – 25 Reflection: God’s authority is based in love...
If I hurt someone I care about, I should admit what I have done and apologize and usually shouldn’t need anybody else there as a mediator. So why do Catholics...
Readings (Year B): Genesis 22:1 – 2, 9a, 10 – 13, 15 – 18Psalms 116:10, 15, 16 – 17, 18 – 19Romans 8:31b – 34Mark 9:2...
(R)evolutionary Hope By Kathleen Bonnette (Cascade Books, 2023) In his Confessions, St. Augustine famously asks, “What do I love when I love my God?” It seems...
The knife was in his mouth pirate style, the serrated blade turned inward. “No, no, no!” I cried. When I gently pulled the sharp object from my toddler’s lips...
Work, for the night is coming,When man works no more.—Gospel song by Annie L. Coghill (1854) A year before Dad died, I asked him, “Have you had a happy life?”...
