Until President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the race, the 2024 presidential campaign offered voters a choice between two deeply unpopular...
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Readings (Year B): 1 Kings 17:10 – 16Psalms 146:7, 8 – 9, 9 – 10Hebrews 9:24 – 28Mark 12:38 – 44 or 12:41 – 44 Reflection:...
Project 2025 is the product of The Heritage Foundation, a well-heeled conservative Washington think tank. While some Catholics may support the project, the...
Readings (Year B): Deuteronomy 6:2 – 6Psalms 18:2 – 3, 3 – 4, 47, 51Hebrews 7:23 – 28Mark 12:28b – 34 Reflection: Love God and...
The Vatican’s historic Synod on Synodality, which opens its final session this month, started with high hopes. To prepare for the synod, every diocese...
Readings (Year B): Jeremiah 31:7 – 9Psalms 126:1 – 2, 2 – 3, 4 – 5, 6Hebrews 5:1 – 6Mark 10:46 – 52 Reflection: The humble...
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...
In the fall of 2016, I logged onto Facebook and saw a post from my dear friend—the Godmother of my children—that really threw me: “I hate that abortion...
On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, right-wing hate groups gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally that turned violent and deadly. Present at the...
Readings (Year B): Isaiah 53:10 – 11Psalms 33:4 – 5, 18 – 19, 20, 22Hebrews 4:14 – 16Mark 10:35 – 45 or 10:42 – 45...
