When I was pregnant with my now-toddler, long before I knew he would be a little boy named Robin who has a fabulous sense of style (he loves the color pink and...
LGBTQ
To recognize International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, along with the Sisters of Providence of...
I am a proud dog mama of a 50-pound poodle and a 35-pound sheepadoodle. While scrolling through my pup-filled social media feed a few weeks ago, I saw an...
The world—especially the church—would be a better place if Christians who are heterosexual and are not trans listened to a sermon about sexual sin from the...
James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Coming up through Catholic schools in New York all her life, Meg Stapleton Smith found herself continually revisiting one question: “What happens to the...
“Black Lives Matter to God and to Us,” reads a large banner hanging over the entryway to the United Catholic Youth Ministries (UCYM) staff workspaces on the...
Daniel Aston, Kelly Loving, Ashley Paugh, Derrick Rump, and Raymond Green Vance were all people irreplaceable in the human family and deserving of long and...
Swinging on the Garden Gate By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Skinner House Books, 2022) I almost cried several times while reading Swinging on the Garden Gate. Not...
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...
