Blessed are those . . . who have set their hearts on pilgrimage. • Psalm 84:5 (NIV) Late one spring, writes Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales...
Spirituality
While browsing a folder of religious iconography, I came across an unusual sight: the image of a saint with a swan at his side: St. Hugh of Lincoln, the...
My children love hearing the story of the time I got into trouble as a kindergartener, the time I had to “sit on the black line” at recess. It would be...
My youngest son woke from a nightmare at 4:00 a.m. He is 11 years old and nightmares happen, but this dream was very specific: Government agents from...
In 2016, Lisa Campbell, a Pentecostal convert to Catholicism, began attending religious communities that celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass, sometimes...
St. Toribio Romo Over the past 30 years or so, several Mexican and American newspapers have reported cases of undocumented immigrants surviving the journey...
As Christians, we don’t typically view music the way we view activities like recreational sex or drunk driving. While Christian morality warns against...
Hermits are rarely in the news. Not only are there relatively few people who seek to become hermits, but those who do embrace a solitary existence of prayer...
“Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” • (Luke 6:12) You might say that it was Thérèse who...
Talking about his late friend Thomas Merton, acclaimed jazz vibraphonist Dick Sisto says jazz resembles Merton’s own approach to writing. Sisto, a former...
