In January 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order committing the United States to preserving 30 percent of its land and territorial ocean by the...
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My friend and I were eating at a restaurant in South Bend, Indiana when someone called the police on us. She accused us of scaring her 8-year-old daughter. The...
Remembering Why We Preach By Karla J. Bellinger and Michael E. Connors, C.S.C. (Ave Maria Press, 2022) How can preaching foster encounter between God and a...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Today, many Catholics as well as Christians of other denominations admire and enjoy Jewish traditions and rituals. But it...
If you attended parochial school some decades ago, you probably had a few Marys in your class. They would include, of course, Marias, Marians, Mary Annes, Mary...
As winter begins to melt away, I’m thinking about dumpster diving again. I started last year when I realized how much college students throw away at the end of...
Every Good Friday, Catholics hear a sermon about the crucifixion of Jesus. Perhaps that sermon may reference Temple leaders calling for Jesus’ crucifixion or...
While many might say Jesus’ call to welcome the stranger (Matt. 25:31-35) is simple and straightforward, attempts to put that call into practice in U.S...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Holy Week is a time for pondering the deepest mysteries of the Christian faith, especially how in the betrayal, suffering...
Orson Scott Card has written that the world of science fiction is like the stable in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: much larger on the inside than the outside...
