A friend recently confided to me that he and his dad had used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence text chatbot, to write an obituary for his uncle. His dad...
Articles
Or/And By Jeannine Marie Pitas (Paraclete Press, 2023) “Plato’s Symposium did not quite get it,” writes Jeannine Marie Pitas. “We are not severed eight-limbed...
Back in my days as a college pagan hedonist, I returned to my University of Washington dorm from Thanksgiving dinner with my parents having contracted a...
In February 2023, U.S. Catholic published an article called “The Catholics who refuse to leave” about a handful of Catholics who, despite frustration with...
Readings (Year A): Zechariah 9:9 – 10Psalms 145:1 – 2, 8-9, 10 – 11, 13 – 14Romans 8:9, 11 – 13Matthew 11:25 – 30...
My friend Juan is originally from Guatemala, and his first language is not English. Recently, he mentioned that for breakfast he had “potato cylinders” along...
When I was working on my memoir, Atchison Blue (Sorin Books), about my regular visits with the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas, I met Sister Kathleen...
It crossed my mind recently that what I really need to be the parent I want to be is a personality transplant. When I think of the parents I most admire, in...
Readings (Year A): 2 Kings 4:8 – 11, 14 – 16aPsalms 89:2 – 3, 16 – 17, 18 – 19Romans 6:3 – 4, 8 – 11Matthew 10:37...
Robert Harris is a 33-year-old Black, queer Catholic in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He came to Catholicism at 14, around the time he began developing an awareness of...
