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...
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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...
Readings (Year A): Ezekiel 33:7-9Psalms 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9Romans 13:8-10Matthew 18:15-20 Reflection: Just accountability A lot of us have a complicated...
The first sign that something was wrong was at the luncheon following my father’s memorial Mass at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago in February 2020. In...
Catholic print media has recently noted the prominence of Christian science fiction/fantasy authors. In 2021, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the...








