Headlines are often sensationalistic and even when not, they are still jarring; they can quickly move us to gasping fury or fearful wondering.
In our current Year of Prayer, perhaps they should also be moving us to engage with heaven as we read.
Elizabeth Scalia recently shared on social media that for Lent, and for the “Year of Prayer,” she was committing to memory a version of the Breastplate of St. Patrick. It is a powerful confession of belief that includes a rather comprehensive request
There were plenty of lessons to be learned in the "Year of Mercy." Now, we are in a "Year of Prayer," designated by Pope Francis in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year.
There are some news articles one consumes with the same reluctance as one accepts a repellent medical treatment. "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men," which was featured in the New York Times in late February, is
A discussion among practicing Catholics occurred in a social media group, inevitably landing on current divisions between Catholics -- those who would describe themselves as "orthodox" vs the "more progressive;" those who pronounce themselves "proudly cafeteria" versus those who identify as "proudly
Ursula the Sea Witch may have been a voice in a cartoon, but Pat Carroll called the role "the one thing in my life that I'm probably most proud of. I don't even care if, after I'm gone, the only thing that
The sexual and the spiritual do not exist exclusive to each other but will frequently commingle, particularly within the experience of mystical contemplation. Further, it is obvious that one can communicate that reality very well without going into biological or gynecological descriptiveness
Here is one version of a Catholic "wish list" that reflects what one Catholic writer would like to see happen within Catholicism in 2024.
We need to figure out what we're doing about accompaniment and decide whether we, as a catholic and apostolic church, mean to accompany the whole world through difficult things (in which case we might have been the missing presence that may have
We are all deep wells of mystery, and God is yet deeper still. As such, it is good to not be shocked or scandalized too easily (Jesus never was … ). Good, too, to perhaps climb down off each other’s backs a