America, there is cause for rejoicing. Black Catholics in America, there is a reason to “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” On Sunday, October 25, Pope Francis...
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Across the nation, attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. There have been stabbings in Texas, assaults in New York and San Francisco, and physical...
On June 19, 2019, Congress introduced a new bill: H.R. 40. The bill advocates for the creation of a commission to examine the possible payment of reparations...
I write from New York City three weeks after life has been disrupted and upended in ways that I could never have imagined. The novel coronavirus and the threat...
Things are moving so rapidly it’s difficult to get some perspective. In a span of a few weeks we’ve gone from praying for people elsewhere in the world...
At St. Joseph Parish in Seattle, the changes started small. In the early weeks of COVID-19’s quick spread around the country, the parish “tried to be...
No doubt just about everyone who has spent any time on social media has experienced that special dread when a formerly beloved but increasingly antagonistic...
I called my mother last night. She’s 91 and lives alone in another state. Because of the COVID-19 state of emergency, I wanted to be sure she was OK and not...
Pope Francis offered up his dreams for the Amazon in an apostolic exhortation, Querida Amazonia (Beloved Amazonia), published in February. Meant to share...
Voting can feel fraught for Catholics. Neither national party’s platform advances the full range of issues people of faith care about. A bright spot in the...
