Commentary

April 24, 2019

By Cardinal Blase J. Cupich

'Do you not perceive it?'

Someone recently asked me what my favorite celebration during Holy Week was, and I quickly responded, “The Chrism Mass.”

April 24, 2019

By Father Donald Senior, CP

May 5: Third Sunday of Easter

The Scripture readings for this Sunday continue the tone of exuberant joy just right for this time between Easter and Pentecost.

April 10, 2019

By Monsignor Michael Boland

Thank you to parishes

This month I would like to take the opportunity to say a great big “thank you” to all the parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago for all you do for Catholic Charities, and to celebrate all we do together to serve the poor and vulnerable in our community.

April 24, 2019

By Michelle Martin

Playing games

The word “gamer” nowadays conjures up the image of a teenage or 20-something guy, planted in front of a TV or computer monitor, probably in a dark basement, all by himself.

February 6, 2019

By Bishop Robert Barron

‘Bird Box’ and spiritual warfare

The film “Bird Box,” based on a British novel of the same name, started streaming on Netflix around Christmastime. Starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich, it is a taut thriller that manages, perhaps despite itself, to shed considerable light on the parlous spiritual condition of contemporary culture.

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.

April 24, 2019

By Kerry Alys Robinson

The audacious gift of being Catholic

Years ago, Mercy Sister Margaret Farley, my professor and spiritual director, asked something I have never forgotten: “What is it you most love about being Catholic?”

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