When I first meet Sister Norma Pimentel over Zoom, not five minutes have gone by before she needs to pause and take an important call. “I’m sorry,” she says in...
Immigration
My friend and I were eating at a restaurant in South Bend, Indiana when someone called the police on us. She accused us of scaring her 8-year-old daughter. The...
While many might say Jesus’ call to welcome the stranger (Matt. 25:31-35) is simple and straightforward, attempts to put that call into practice in U.S...
“I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” This is the last line of the creed Catholics profess at Mass each week. The...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Advent challenges us to better prepare ourselves for the arrival of Jesus in our world. And this call to transformation...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The mandate to welcome the stranger predates Christianity and has been both a moral obligation and a sacred trust in many...
This interview is an edited and abridged version of Linda Dakin-Grimm’s interview with Jeannie Gaffigan and Mike Lewis on the Field Hospital podcast. Linda...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Too often, Catholics take their cues from politics instead of Catholic social teaching when forming their views on...
When I dreamt of becoming a mother, I never imagined parenting in strings of broken Spanish. In fact, my linguistic understanding of it was limited to a...
I found myself incredibly angry in 2020. It seemed to be the year where all the tension inside me, all the injustice around me, all the indifference I was...
