When she was young, Kay Perdue Meadows never imagined she’d grow up to be a catechist. She also never imagined she’d grow up to be a Catholic. A convert to the...
Author - Jeannine M. Pitas
As a history student at the University of Iowa, Evan Hudson did not expect his recreational experimentation with opioids to have long-term consequences. But...
In 2011, at age 27, I experienced a crisis of faith. The man I loved and hoped to marry—a very scientifically-minded software engineer—joined a group of other...
Dorina Pena describes herself as a “church lady supreme.” A founding member of the young adult ministry at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Philadelphia, 38-year...
Ten years ago, Edward Cervantes—then a writer, artist, and public policy graduate student at Mills College in Oakland, California—found himself unexpectedly...
Readings (Year A): Exodus 17:3 – 7Psalms 95:1 – 2, 6 – 7, 8 – 9Romans 5:1-2, 5-8John 4:5 – 42 Reflection: Ask for living water...
It was a warm summer night back in the early 2010s. I was sitting on a patio sipping sangria with a friend I’ll call Jim—a man about a decade and a half older...
On a gray spring day, I enter the hospice unit with three other women. Following cues from the nurses, we quietly approach the room of an old woman lying...
Readings (Year C): 2 Maccabees 7:1 – 2, 9 – 14Psalms 17:1, 5 – 6, 8, 152 Thessalonians 2:16 – 3:5Luke 20:27 – 38 Reflection: I...
