My daughter has always been terrified of bugs, but she likes to help me in the garden. Earlier this spring, as we turned the soil to prepare our garden for...
Author - Kathleen Bonnette
It is Eastertime. The birds are singing, the sun is shining, and flowers are emerging in glorious color. The Earth is exuberant with new life. I can’t help but...
Attending Mass with young kids is much harder than it seems, and when Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) closed at my parish due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Readings (Year C): Amos 8:4-7Psalm 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-81 Timothy 2:1-8Luke 16:10-13 Reflection: The backbone of faith The theme that stood out to me this week—and...
I have never been a gardener. Despite my best intentions, any plants I try to tend typically wither up and die before I can enjoy the fruits of my labor...
“Mommy, why aren’t you happy just the way God made you?!” When my 8-year-old daughter posed this query with tears streaming down her face, it was a punch to...
The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice By Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J. (Anamchara Books, 2021) “Jesuit Patrick Saint-Jean offers us a way to heal our battered...
Prior to my work in the peace and justice arena, I focused much of my academic attention on moral psychology, which attends to the emotional and psychological...
We are all familiar with the story in the Gospel of John when Jesus encounters a woman accused of adultery, the penalty for which is death by stoning. The...
