In my final trimester of pregnancy with our firstborn, I followed all of the Prepare for Baby instructions provided enthusiastically by friends, strangers, and...
COVID-19
I started working for U.S. Catholic on the day our office closed during the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. While I was bummed not...
One of the finest fruits of this now multiyear global pandemic has been the extended time it allowed me to spend with my three children. By working from home...
Even during the early months of the pandemic, many called the global outbreak of COVID-19 an apocalyptic event. This was not only in the sense that it was a...
What I miss most about going to church is the choir. During this long year of pandemic, when I only entered our parish building twice, that’s the piece of...
Strawberry Mansion Langhorne Slim (Dualtone Records, 2021) First, let’s deal with the name. It’s a self-deprecating joke. He’s really Sean Scolnick, a nice...
My colleague Jane and I met over Zoom with a congregational leader in Brooklyn, New York a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Tears flowed as the woman...
A creak in the old floorboard announces my presence. The blue-haired cashier twists from her perch behind the counter as I enter the co-op. Her young eyes warm...
Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had...
Researching COVID-19, scientists used a human cell line called “HeLa” to isolate and identify how the virus infects human cells. HeLa cells reveal both the...
