Father Donald Senior was a Passionist priest and biblical scholar who died in Chicago on November 8, 2022, at the age of 82. He taught New Testament at...
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One thing I didn’t expect about working at a parish named Our Lady of Sorrows was the frequency with which friends, acquaintances, and strangers, upon hearing...
Sixty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a young Black minister addressed what was the largest assembly of civil rights protesters in the nation’s history. He...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify What does it mean to live in a fragile democracy? It can be difficult to imagine what that actually looks like. State voter...
Readings (Year A): Sirach 27:30 – 28:7Psalms 103:1 – 2, 3 – 4, 9 – 10, 11 – 12Romans 14:7 – 9Matthew 18:21 – 35...
In the work to promote an economically, socially, and racially just society, NETWORK, the Catholic social justice lobby founded in 1972 by women religious, has...
One night, I came home late from work and took off my shoes at the door, as is my family’s custom. Walking in barefoot, I stepped on my son’s Legos that had...
Dear Mama God By Daneen Akers (Watchfire Media, Inc., 2023) Children’s books that include feminine images of God are hard to find. This is one of the many...
Life is full of trouble. That should be obvious. And, when trouble comes, oftentimes Catholics and other Christians don’t know how to reconcile their grief and...
This Armageddon is not the mythic final battle between one army that is consummately good and another that is demonically evil. Armageddon Time is a nuanced...