In this “new” world, where so much of our spiritual lives have had to move online, we’ve been powerfully reminded how much we need one another and how...
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As COVID-19 cases rose rapidly in March 2020, dioceses around the United States responded by closing church doors to keep their communities safe. For many...
Social media has been getting a lot of criticism lately. From the revelations about social media platforms’ addictive design in Netflix’s The Social Dilemma to...
Recently, my wife and I watched the much-discussed Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It features a parade of Silicon Valley insiders making confessions...
As the novel coronavirus pandemic closed churches and moved Mass and other religious celebrations online, conversations started happening among Catholics about...
I love to look at the stars. On the night leading into my birthday last year, there was a lunar eclipse and a blood moon. I opened a window in my living...
Sister of Saint Joseph of Peace Susan Francois grew up knowing that the Catholic faith is connected to making the world a better place, but she probably didn’t...
In 2013 the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) found that Christians are more likely than other religious groups to ask religious...
Four hundred years ago, Brother Lawrence (1614–1691), born George Herman, spoke of spirituality as the “practice of the presence of God.” This lay Carmelite...
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...
