The photograph, depicting robed and hooded KKK members gathered in a church, in front of a banner reading JESUS SAVES, is spiritually grotesque. And morally...
Author - Kevin P. Considine
No Fear of Time Black Star (self-released, 2022) For those unfamiliar with hip-hop, No Fear of Time requires context. Backpack rap. This refers to a subgroup...
“I can’t do this because I’m an atheist.” “I can’t do this because I’m Christian, not Catholic.” “I can’t do this because I don’t know what I believe.” These...
The saying that “laughter is the best medicine” is not without wisdom. Laughter, goodness, beauty, and healing often go together. Yet, we Catholics rarely seem...
Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
When religious cults begin, they often attract suspicion, scorn, and trepidation. This is nothing new. Civilizations have been suspicious of new and unknown...
Cuando era niño y asistía a la escuela católica, la Anunciación era uno de los misterios gozosos que las buenas hermanas me hicieron aprender de memoria: el...
I did not say anything. Students played it cool. I heard a few students gasp in surprise when they walked into my room after Christmas break. Other...
As Christian mystic Howard Thurman noted, the “religion of Jesus” is supposed to be a word of salvation, a way of survival, and a means for creating a...
In the Gospel of Luke an angel visits a young woman in Nazareth named Mary and asks if she will bear the Messiah. Mary says yes. Then, presto! Mary becomes...
