Each year for vacation, my husband and I go to a beach town called Ogunquit on the coast of Maine. It’s one of our favorite places to visit. We stay at a hotel...
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In this time of rising authoritarianism and political violence, Jeanné Lewis, the chief executive officer of Faith in Public Life, draws on the strength and...
Catholic popes have issued 240 encyclicals since 1854. The most prolific modern papal authors were those who had reigns of at least 25 years: John Paul II...
Readings (Year C): Ezekiel 47:1 – 2, 8 – 9, 12Psalm 46:2 – 3, 5 – 6, 8 – 91 Corinthians 3:9c – 11, 16 – 17John 2:13...
Star Line Chance the Rapper (Self-released, 2025) I am 45 years old, so my taste in music, especially hip-hop, is suspect to my teenage son’s generation. He...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts In the Christian tradition, “apocalypse” simply means revelation, or unveiling. Yet somewhere along the...
There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday)...
When a hockey player at an elite Catholic prep school dies of suicide, leaving a cryptic note referencing the death of another player 20 years earlier, student...
About 25 years ago, during the weekly Friday evening Mass in the living room of the Bishop Dingman House of the Des Moines Catholic Worker, a man entered from...
Across the plateaus, south of the county seat, a monster power shovel the height of a 20-story building loomed on the horizon. Its name was the Silver Spade...
