When I was a young girl I remember my Cuban grandfather—a refugee to the United States—often talking about el reino de Dios. His heartfelt belief in the reign...
Vocations
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...
When our capitalist culture tells us we need to be thinner, richer, fitter, or younger, we recognize that someone, somewhere is trying to sell us something...
The question occasionally arises from an inquisitive parishioner: “What do priests do all day?” It’s not an unreasonable question from those who only see their...
On June 24, 2023, at 9:17 p.m., my internal schema of people most dear to me rearranged itself to make room for our family’s newest member: an impossibly sweet...
Although vocations to the priesthood continue to decline in the Catholic Church, Augustinian Father Anthony Pizzo balks at referring to this phenomenon as the...
“This wasn’t the book I wanted to write,” says Dominican Sister Laurie Brink about her recent book, The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God (Liturgical Press)...
Our 6-year-old recently informed my wife and me that he would be going to college three times—because he wanted to be 1) an explorer, 2) a paleontologist, and...
As an adolescent, I never thought I would end up working in theology and ministry. For me, Catholicism was to be tolerated for the sake of family. No more, no...
On my 25th birthday a few weeks ago while staying at my parents’ house in the Colorado Rockies, I went on a long walk with my mom around a frozen lake. We...
