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June 03, 2020

Comfort and hope in the time of pandemic

Pope Francis has followed a longstanding spiritual tradition of turning to the Blessed Virgin Mary in times of trouble.

June 03, 2020

Revisiting Pope John Paul II’s call to dialogue 25 years later

One hundred years after the birth of St. John Paul II, we rightly look back on the many ways that the late pontiff enriched the church and the world. One such contribution was to the ecumenical movement, that is, the pursuit of unity among followers of Christ.

May 06, 2020

The Eucharist and the pandemic

So many good and faithful Catholics lament that they do not have access to the Eucharist during the pandemic. It is a message I hear frequently these days.

December 18, 2019

Inculturation and the Amazon synod

My first mission as a Dominican sister was in a rural area of the central Andes, where the majority spoke Quechua, the language of my grandparents. It’s one of nearly 50 languages spoken in Peru, where I was born and raised. Four other Dominican sisters and I were responsible for the administration of a parish that included 29 small villages. There was no resident priest in the area.

December 04, 2019

A variety of offerings for the readers on your Christmas list

A selection of three books that would make good gifts

February 20, 2019

Significance of pope’s visit to UAE

When Pope Francis disembarked from the plane in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 3, it marked the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that the successor of Peter visited the Arabian Peninsula. To focus too much on this marker of papal history, however, is to risk missing the present and future significance of this trip for interreligious relations, particularly Muslim-Catholic dialogue.

February 06, 2019

Oscars 2019: The year it got weird

It’s been a strange year for the Oscars. In August the Academy announced the creation of a new category, “Outstanding Popular Film,” which was almost immediately shouted into oblivion by Oscar voters and critics who would prefer the movies that make the money that actually allows modern-day cinema to survive be happy with their cash and People’s Choice Award nominations.

June 06, 2018

When post-Vatican II Catholics wondered, ‘What’s a church?'

Like most Americans who live in major East Coast and Midwestern cities, I have always belonged to parishes with century-old church buildings that fit a certain style: tall, long, ornate, likely gothic. When I first began researching the more modern-looking Catholic churches that began cropping up in the postwar boom, I was drawn to the major buildings which, like St. Norbert’s Abbey in De Pere, Wisconsin, (dedicated 1959) were intended by their builders to last for a millennium.

April 25, 2018

Reclaiming Mary Magdalene in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

NBC’s live broadcast of “Jesus Christ Superstar” on the night of Easter, April 1, may very well have been “live TV at its best,” as Rob Weinert-Kendt argued in his review for America magazine. The stage play opened April 27 at the Lyric Opera here in Chicago.

April 11, 2018

I remember Cardinal George

The first time I met Cardinal Francis George, it was in a meeting with a group of rabbis in the first months after he came to Chicago. I asked him, “You have come to a city with a robust Catholic-Jewish relationship, established and cultivated by your predecessor, Cardinal Bernardin. Do you have any concerns about the Catholic-Jewish relationship?”
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