Ansel Augustine is director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans. “Can the church we love, love us back?” asks Ansel...
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A very common way of presenting Catholic social teaching is the formula “see, judge, act.” The method comes to prominence in the social encyclicals of St. Pope...
I don’t go to museums much. Not because I don’t like them, but simply because—you know. Maybe for the same reason you don’t go. Museums take time, and life is...
Readings (Year A): Isaiah 58:7 – 10Psalms 112:4 – 5, 6 – 7, 8 – 91 Corinthian 2:1 – 5Matthew 5:13 – 16 Reflection: Remember...
People of faith believe God is at work in the world around us. But this can be hard to see, given the state of politics in the United States, especially when...
Jessica Pegis is an author based in Toronto. In her debut novel The God Painter (Stone Table Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2021), Toronto writer Jessica...
“Now hang on a minute. Go back,” said my Jesuit friend over Zoom. “You said you’d made a good discernment. But I hear you saying things didn’t turn out as...
A friend once shared that she still wanted to pursue marriage in the Catholic Church someday because she really wanted to experience “those sacramental orgasms...
Coming up through Catholic schools in New York all her life, Meg Stapleton Smith found herself continually revisiting one question: “What happens to the...
Readings (Year A): Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12 – 13Psalms 146:6 – 7, 8 – 9, 9 – 101 Corinthians 1:26 – 31Matthew 5:1 – 12a...
