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...
Our Faith
“How good and how pleasant it is, when brothers dwell together as one!” (Psalm 133:1) On May 15, 2026, I will celebrate my 50th anniversary of priestly...
I wasn’t particularly offended a couple of months ago when my 4-year-old told me that she wishes Aunt Sarah were her mom because Aunt Sarah is “more fun.” For...
When Juana de la Cruz Vasquez Gutiérrez was only 4 years old, she was injured in a fall from a horse. As she lay on the ground, she had a vision in which Mary...
Growing up in a conservative evangelical church, the closest I came to understanding queer theology was in narrow, binary terms. Queer theology was theology...
Christmas decorations have gone up at our homes, streets, and public places, lightening these spaces and filling us with joy and expectations of Christmas...
A voice cries out:In the desert prepare the way of the LORD!Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!Every valley shall be filled in,every mountain...
“I’m going to burn your Christmas presents!” I screeched from the top of the stairs at my 7-year-old son. Bloated from my fourth pregnancy and past my due...
As an art critic and Catholic, I am often joyfully surprised by the unlikely homes of divine wisdom. St. Bonaventure wrote in his Legenda Maior that “In things...
Of all the liturgical seasons, Advent is my favorite. I love its sense of expectation, that image of God coming as a light in the darkness, which so resonates...
