In autumn of 2015, I began organizing an annual wassail in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. On the Saturday after the University of Chicago’s fall quarter...
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What does a vampire give his girlfriend for Christmas? Do homicide detectives eat figgy pudding on stakeouts? Why is there mistletoe in outer space? Annual TV...
Back in June, I attended the 2024 Association of U.S. Catholic Priests Assembly in Lexington, Kentucky as part of a working group on women in the church. Along...
Earlier this year, Lily,* a Catholic doctoral student at a Midwestern college, was looking out the window of their library, intently watching the Catholic...
On February 15, 2024, over a thousand people gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City to celebrate the funeral of Cecilia Gentili, a prominent...
“I’ll never forget one of the last times I saw her. I can still see her, sitting in that chair in the corner and saying, ‘why does it take so long to die?’”—Dr...
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church By Gareth Gore (Simon & Schuster, 2024) My personal...
Politics can be exhausting and indeed discouraging. A few weeks ago, when I asked my 18-year-old freshmen students if they’d registered to vote, half of them...
For Mary Novak, being the first lay executive director of NETWORK, a social justice lobby of Catholic sisters founded in 1972, is an “integrating role at this...
In 1917, Dorothy Day was the victim of political persecution as she joined activists in Washington, D.C. standing outside the White House with picket signs...
