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December 16, 2020
Conjunction of 2020 and spiritual truths
Perspective matters. The personal significance of what we observe has everything to do with how we observe it. If you happen to be outside in the early evening on Monday, Dec. 21, you will notice a remarkably bright spot of light in the southwestern sky — brighter than any natural phenomenon you have likely seen in the sky other than the sun and moon.
June 17, 2020
What the devil can teach us about racism
The nation is engaged in a struggle for its very soul. In the context of a crippling pandemic, we face the even more pervasive and entrenched challenge of racism.
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.
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