Back in June, I attended the 2024 Association of U.S. Catholic Priests Assembly in Lexington, Kentucky as part of a working group on women in the church. Along...
The Examined Life
I recently reread C. S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in his Space Trilogy. The story follows a philologist, Ransom, who is kidnapped and...
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who from now on die in the Lord.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their...
Last June, a friend invited me to attend Mass at a parish I had never visited before on the same weekend as the Los Angeles Pride parade. Before attending, I...
At first I started looking at the bush because I was bored and a little frustrated. I was on a walk in the woods with my husband and toddler, and I found...
“We will all be changed, in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet.” • (1 Cor. 15:51–52) There is a saying from Heraclitus: “No one ever steps...
I recently became a godmother for the second time in my life, which made me quite nervous. I wasn’t concerned with the part about “being a spiritual mentor”: I...
When my child started at a Montessori school last fall, my husband and I giggled at some of the rules they expected toddlers between the ages of 18 months and...
“The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.”(Psalm 19:2) In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our...
I recently rewatched one of my favorite movies, A Walk to Remember, which came out in 2003 and is based on the book of the same name. Landon, a rebellious-yet...
