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St. Kateri, fidelity of mind and freedom of spirit
My family’s trip through the South Dakota Badlands and Yellowstone National Park was the first experience I had of not being proud to be...

Jenny Snarski
3 days ago2 min read


For Emmitt
I facilitate Urban Plunge Immersion Retreats. During these retreats students learn about, serve, and hopefully encounter in small...

Laura G. Hancock
4 days ago3 min read


Trusting Our Community
Jesus’ instructions to his disciples in today’s gospel strikes right at my anxiety. He tells them to go forth, “carry no money bag, no...
Josie Diebold
Jul 62 min read


Created Equal
The United States Declaration of Independence celebrates its 249th birthday today. Each time I examine this document with my American...

Kathleen Clark
Jul 42 min read


Room for Us All
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – two men to whom God entrusted large parts of the early Church, and...
Kelly Sankowski
Jun 292 min read


A Meal of Remembrance
Growing up in my family, we had a special traditions around yearly birthday celebrations. The birthday person got to pick what they...

Patty Breen
Jun 222 min read


Veni Sancte Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit! Today we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost. In the readings today, we hear about the apostles receiving the Holy...

Caroline Head
Jun 71 min read


Now What?
I keep thinking of the moment when Jesus tells the disciples that they don’t need to know the times or the seasons for when God does...

Ellen Romer Niemiec
Jun 12 min read


My Kindred Spirits
Today’s gospel reading shows Mary’s traveling “in haste” to Judea to see her cousin, Elizabeth. I love that detail. I picture Mary, so...

Sarah Signorino
May 312 min read


What might he say?
Without in the least trivializing the splendid readings for this last Sunday of the Easter season, let me share that decades ago, I began...

Sue Delvaux
May 243 min read


Stories of Loving One Another
What would you do for your friends and the people you love? My guess would be that you would do anything for the people you love....

Jocelyn E. Collen
May 173 min read


Apostolic Conversion
I love this time after Lent, when we get the readings of the apostles, and we hear the ways that the mission of Jesus was being spread...

Alexis Abello
May 101 min read


Grad School with the Pope
Over sub sandwiches in a small town in Ohio while on a work trip, I sat with a coworker watching and waiting, eyes fixed on St. Peter’s...

Jennifer Delvaux
May 82 min read


Let the Wind Blow! (A Prayer for the Conclave)
When Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council, his main goal was to bring the Church up to date by opening its doors to the...

Patty Breen
May 72 min read


Dear Cardinals...remember the vulnerable
Dear Cardinals, Our Global Church shares the sadness in mourning the loss of Pope Francis. This is not just a loss for all of you, but...

Jocelyn E. Collen
May 62 min read


Dear Cardinals....can we carry on
Dear Cardinals, How presumptuous of me to be writing to you! Your mourning and level of work in anticipation of the Conclave must be...

Sue Delvaux
May 51 min read


Unfathomable: Follow Me
There have been many happenings in my personal life over the past eight months that, before they occurred, I would have said were...

Laura G. Hancock
May 32 min read


Dear Cardinals...
In less than a week Cardinals will shutter themselves away in the Sistine Chapel and begin the Conclave. Many have seen the movie or read...

Jennifer Delvaux
May 22 min read


Unlocking the Heart
In the April 2025 Magnificat mass companion, the introduction for Divine Mercy Sunday says that Jesus showed his wounded hands and side,...

Jenny Snarski
Apr 262 min read


Pope Francis: The Pastoral Pope
As I reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis and what it means to me, one word comes to mind to describe him. Pastoral. His perspective on...

Patty Breen
Apr 242 min read
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