Commentary

January 6, 2021

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

The Magi’s conversion

On the first Sunday of this new year, the Magi remind us that our faith life is a journey. It is a journey that leads to a conversion, for we are told that they “return home by a different way.”

January 6, 2021

By Father Donald Senior, CP

Jan. 17: Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

In a book about the Benedictine community at Collegeville, Minnesota, titled “Cloister Walk,” Kathleen Norris describes the difference between a call and a choice. In our Western society we prize choice — making our own decision about where we will go to college (if we can get in), about our job (if we can find one), about our future spouse (if we meet the perfect candidate) and a lot of other things. Frank Sinatra’s famous croon “I did it my way” has a strong appeal.

January 6, 2021

By Elmida Kulovic | Contributor

Inspired by refugees

As director of Catholic Charities’ Refugee Resettlement Program, one of the “perks” of my job is welcoming refugee families at the airport. Recently, we welcomed an 11-year-old girl from Uganda so we could reunite her with her mother after five years of being apart.

January 6, 2021

By Michelle Martin

Give a child a can opener

Some of you are probably familiar with the saga of “Bean Dad,” a man who wrote a 23-post Twitter thread about making his 9-year-old daughter figure out on her own how to use a can opene

October 9, 2019

By Bishop Robert Barron

Talking with skeptics on Reddit

I just finished my second dive into the Reddit AMA world. One of the most popular websites in the world, Reddit is a forum for all sorts of online conversations and presentations.

February 6, 2019

By Father James Keenan, SJ

Doing virtue in Rome

I arrived here in Rome two weeks ago. I will be living and writing my columns for Chicago Catholic for the next seven months here.

April 25, 2018

By Don Wycliff

Writing the script of our lives

I recently attended a workshop on trauma and emotional resilience in children for people who work in the child-welfare system. The keynote speaker kept coming back to one theme: Each of us must write the script of his or her own life.

September 2, 2020

By Kerry Alys Robinson

Masks and mercy

On what was a particularly difficult day, laden with disappointment and marked by exhaustion from the cumulative weight of bearing sorrow on behalf of friends, relatives and colleagues experiencing myriad grief, illness, job loss, restlessness and anxiety, the mail arrived. Thank you, U.S. Postal Service!

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