Years ago, when I was in graduate school, I had a wonderful spiritual director who would often ask me this simple question when I was in the midst of...
Vocations
My colleague Jane and I met over Zoom with a congregational leader in Brooklyn, New York a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Tears flowed as the woman...
When I was pregnant for the first time, my husband and I lived on the edge of the world in Big Sur, California. We spent hours hiking the beaches, cliffs, and...
A single Catholic friend of mine describes her experience belonging to our Catholic parish. When parishioners find out she’s not married, they often direct her...
The first time I ever heard of John Henry Newman was in the summer of 1964. The Idea of a University was required reading for all incoming Georgetown...
When I arrived in Taiwan 20 years ago to start a Claretian mission, I didn’t know much about Matteo Ricci. Sure, I had heard of this Jesuit missionary in some...
About a mile off I-74 in southeast Indiana between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, nestled among rolling green fields populated by a few contented grazing cows...
Caryll Houselander became a significant spiritual mentor for me in my 20s, when I found her book The Reed of God, about Mary and Christ. After that I read...
Becoming a physician was never Marta Kokoszynska’s plan. “I was a math nerd,” she says. But throughout her journey emigrating to the United States and her...
Imagine picking up the phone only to hear Pope Francis’ voice on the other line. It seems almost absurd, yet this is what happened to me a couple of years ago...
