I’ve never been one to pray novenas, but I recently downloaded the Hallow app as research for another article I’m writing and, committed to trying out a...
Saints
If you attended parochial school some decades ago, you probably had a few Marys in your class. They would include, of course, Marias, Marians, Mary Annes, Mary...
Some time in the seventh century, Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, set down the story of Mary of Egypt, who once lived in the desert region of Judea that...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The Catholic Church has a vast panoply of canonized saints, some obscure, others well-known, others so popular they have...
The Mary of my girlhood was modest in every way. She didn’t take up much space or make much noise. Everything about her demeanor proclaimed sexual...
Last November I delivered the annual Mother Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic Studies at Villanova University. (November is when we recall the contributions...
Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times By D.L. Mayfield (Broadleaf Books, 2022) People who write and speak about Dorothy...
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us . . . run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” (Heb. 12:1–2) The...
“What does it mean to be Black and Catholic?” asked Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Thea Bowman. “It means that I come to my church fully functioning...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Some Catholic saints, like Mary Magdalene or Francis of Assisi, are widely known even in secular culture. Other saints...