New Perspectives
I live in a news-infused household. This means that a cable news station is on the TV most of the day–my husband is more of a news junkie than I am!—and that I am a loyal and eager e-subscriber to...
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Precious Oil Upon the Head
When I was in Girl Scouts (a long time ago!), at summer camp one year we learned a couple of Israeli songs. One was called “Hine Ma Tov” and it is very popular with Jewish singers. (A good rendition can...
“This terrible and inconceivable wound to humanity”
This morning, Pope Francis dedicated his entire Sunday Angelus address to the war in Ukraine, imploring Russian President Vladimir Putin to cease hostilities and calling for peace. Francis explained that he was doing so because “this terrible and inconceivable wound...
Roundup of the Pope’s trip to Kazakhstan
Pope Francis arrived in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, September 13, for his apostolic journey to the country and to participate in the Seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. The Holy Father, who has been seen throughout the trip...
New School Year Reads
At the ripe old age of five, I embarked on a long path of learning how to create a sense of orderliness and discipline for my mind, body, and heart. On my first day of kindergarten, my mother defined the...
Reading the Catholic Classics
What makes a literary classic? That was the opening question of a lecture during my last graduate theology course. The premise of the course was that the Lectionary can be read as a classic would. So, what is a classic?...
Seeing Beyond
As much as I loved working with the freshmen at Resurrection High School in Chicago, the ever-present challenge was to help them see beyond their own very circumscribed experiences. My thirteen- and fourteen-year-old students were growing in their knowledge of...
Pope’s Prayer for this Month: Abolish the Death Penalty
This month, September 2022, Pope Francis has asked us to pray for the abolition of the death penalty, saying, “Let us pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in...
Blessed John Paul I’s Letter to Jesus
Editor’s Note: Today’s beatification of Pope John Paul I came up on me quickly. Earlier this year, I planned to write an apologia in favor of his cause for canonization, in response to critics who say that too many popes...
Theological Flights of Fancy
The work of theology, in addition to looking over what we know and what we can extrapolate from divine revelation or from the observable world around us, also inherently involves a certain amount of speculation. Sometimes our theological speculation involves...
An easy way to make your Church more welcoming
Hopefully this is the rare church architecture post that will be well-received by Catholics and other Christians across the ideological spectrum. An article that appeared in the National Catholic Reporter last week, “Disabled Catholics praise pope’s example in publicly using...
Following the Way of God’s Love
I am a big fan of historical and contemporary romances and I consume them in exactly the way that Amazon Kindle envisioned it—voraciously. With a total of 664 in 2021 and over 300 as of mid-August 2022, I feel confident...
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