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...
Author - Jeannine M. Pitas
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...
San Francisco–based artist Stefan Salinas, whose webcomic The Sacramental Father Dom tracks the everyday life of a priest, never doubted his vocation. “From as...
After a winding career path that includes working both as an accountant and a physical therapist along with raising five children, criminal justice reform...
A legendary African American musician stood up and told the story of how he collects robes from former KKK members. His strategy for getting them to leave the...
“If there is a building on fire with a child trapped inside, but outside the building there’s a ‘No Trespassing’ sign, anyone in their right mind would go in...
In the spring of 2008, a visitor to the small town of Postville, Iowa might have been surprised at what she found. In a region populated mostly by descendants...
Two parishes stand at the heart of St. Louis, Missouri: St. Francis Xavier (more commonly known as College Church, with a congregation that is predominantly...
I suspect “Catholic” is not the first identity marker most people think of when they think of a vegetarian. Yet for many Catholics—myself...
