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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...

Most Harry Potter fans will remember when Harry arrives at Hogwarts and sits in front of the whole school for every first year’s biggest...

On Tuesday you read my thoughts on the myth of being founded as a Christian Nation . I purposely avoided the very large, very dangerous...

In another reading for my “Art & Asceticism of Dialogue” graduate course, our class was assigned a reading from the book, I Never Thought...

While I usually dread election season, this year my mindset has been almost completely transformed. This is almost completely thanks to a...

Today we celebrate three of Jesus’s closest friends: Lazarus, who is described as “the one you love” (John 11:3); Mary, who performs the...

The story of the disciples being sent out two by two, without taking anything with them, is Good News! The Good News is that we don’t...

Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...

When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...

Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...

Like many Catholic women, my relationship with Mary has had its ups and downs. Growing up, women are so often told to idolize Mary and...

If there was a patron saint of partying, St. Margaret of Scotland should be it. As Queen of Scotland, she used her court and influence to...

Not being raised Catholic, my understanding of saints was murky at best. I knew they were people whose lives honored God, whose faith...

Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...

Perhaps many of you have heard of and some of you may have experienced the Eucharistic Revival in your parishes. An initiative of the...

“During those days, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to the town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah...

The Gospel for the vigil mass of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is only a few lines from Luke, chapter 11,...

Today's Readings Today’s readings remind me of the popular improv game called “Yes, and.” I played the “Yes, and” game semi-regularly in...

Looking back on my earliest school years, I recall well a few bouts of serious separation anxiety. Despite my love of learning and my...

It is my greatest pleasure to introduce you to Jael, a warrior woman who killed a man with a tent peg. But first, because context is...