When the chaos rises – the living room buzzing with four kids, piano pounding, guitar strumming, high-speed chases underway – Katie Murray’s eyes land on the “Annunciation” print framed above […]
In 1965, Catholic priests and nuns joined the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, seeking voting rights for African Americans in the face of violent local hostility. Catholics risked prison and […]
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Again, the Book of Genesis is the source of this weekend’s first reading. It is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. The story has fascinated, […]
Recently, my bride and I pulled up behind a car at a stoplight that had a bumper sticker that read, “Do you follow Christ this closely?” We both laughed at […]
Imagine spending your life contained inside an opaque bubble. Everything that you need – or, at least, everything you think you need – is there in the bubble with you. […]
On the 17th Sunday in Ordinary time, there are two major themes that pop out from the liturgical texts and are summarized very succinctly by the Alleluia verse: “You have […]
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Book of Deuteronomy, the source of the first reading for this weekend, is one of the first five books of the Bible, collectively called […]
“Mom, look! I have an owie on my ankle, I scraped my knee, and my toenail is ripping off.” So begins my 8-year-old daughter’s nightly litany of injuries her body […]
“Don’t give up the ship.” Those five words were the dying command of Captain James Lawrence during the War of 1812. Mortally wounded in battle at sea, he gasped this […]
Three recent decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States reflect the need to protect children when it comes to issues of human sexuality, now more than ever. We […]
Feast of SS. Peter and Paul This weekend, the Church celebrates the feast of SS. Peter and Paul. Jesus commissioned St. Peter to be first among the apostles and head […]
The young couple a few rows in front of me at Mass one Sunday had a hurried, urgent conversation. The husband then tried to get by his wife in the pew but […]
