In 2022, when Pope Francis canonized St. Titus Brandsma, all I knew about the saint was that he was a Carmelite friar who was murdered at the Dachau...
Mary
One thing I didn’t expect about working at a parish named Our Lady of Sorrows was the frequency with which friends, acquaintances, and strangers, upon hearing...
Will they think I’m a whore? Will they call him a bastard? Will we be killed? I often wonder if these were the thoughts that ran through the mind of Mary, a...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Catholics often have to explain to their Protestant friends that no, we don’t worship Mary. We do venerate her, though...
“Black Lives Matter Madonna,” by Brother Mickey McGrath Madonnas of Color (Clear Faith Publishing) takes you on a rich journey of theological aesthetics...
As Catholics, we can still get the ascension and the assumption mixed up. Just to clear up any confusion, these refer to the ascension of Jesus and the...
During the first Christmas of the pandemic, I discovered a little-known nativity meditation penned by Jean Paul Sartre while he was a German prisoner of war in...
In 2003, when I was 33 years old, my mother died. Her body became overwhelmed quite suddenly by infection because of years of use of prednisone to treat the...
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...
This is the second time I will experience the Advent season as a pregnant woman. An app that tracks pregnancy just told me that we are entering my 25th week...
