November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Patti Smith’s landmark debut album, Horses. A blend of poetry and back-to-basics rock and roll the...
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What does it mean to be Black and Catholic? It means that I come to my church fully functioning; that doesn’t frighten you, does it? It means that… I bring...
A Bible verse that lodged itself in my adolescent mind was Romans 9:13, a passage in which Paul references the book of Malachi: “As it is written, ‘I [God]...
Tucked into eight acres on Long Island’s Shinnecock Bay, St. Joseph’s Villa has been a place of respite and retreat since 1960, tended by the Sisters of St...
Readings (Year C): 2 Samuel 5:1 – 3Psalm 122:1 – 2, 3 – 4, 4 – 5Colossians 1:12 – 20Luke 23:35 – 43 Reflection: In God’s...
Your favorite pair of jeans—especially if they’re Calvin Klein, Levi’s, or Wranglers—may have been made in Lesotho. A small country surrounded by South Africa...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Catholic just war theory is a moral framework for evaluating warfare that dates back to St. Augustine but...
There are a lot of ways to measure a society and a country in decline. Economists like to track gross domestic product and national debt. Politicians and...
Decades ago, it was common in some communities for Catholic children to be clothed with a brown scapular when they received their first communion. The...
Anna (her name is changed here for safety reasons) was in a decades long marriage that she came to understand as emotionally abusive. When people outside of...
