I first came across the writings of Dominican Father Herbert McCabe about seven years after his death in 2001. At the time, there existed a seemingly endless...
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By all accounts, Mother Mary Lange was a holy woman. She was also a revolutionary in every way that a visibly Black nun ministering in the slaveholding and...
Father Donald Senior was a Passionist priest and biblical scholar who died in Chicago on November 8, 2022, at the age of 82. He taught New Testament at...
When I was working on my memoir, Atchison Blue (Sorin Books), about my regular visits with the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas, I met Sister Kathleen...
Some people are very good at asking questions. They turn things over, ponder them, assess from multiple angles, and articulate a question many of us may have...
How Dolores would’ve chortled. There I was, scrunched into a van with seven family members, headed for a three-day weekend in the mountains. The car overflowed...
Ignatian spirituality famously analogizes discernment with falling in love as the touchstone for finding God in everyday life. Jesuit Father George...
I am personally weary of violence, but I continue to feel a strong commitment to the suffering poor of Central America. . . . God knows why He continues to...
Corita Kent, through her art and words, gave me two life-giving lessons this year: love the moment, and love the darkness. Cortia Kent, love is hard work...
It was a monthly routine. One afternoon each month, we would meet for lunch at the same local restaurant. We would take turns saying the blessing and paying...