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

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

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....

It is the darkness before the first rays of the morning sunrise peeking over the hills. The whole world is still - and yet, my whole...

My toddler likes to help me do the dishes, but is afraid of the disposal. One day recently, I was emptying out some old food and delaying...

In the sixth month, Gabriel (the angel) was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man called...

Whew! This week’s Gospel hits hard as we are dealing with everything that is going on in the world. There are many Christians who...

Have you ever lost patience in waiting for something? A bride waiting for her wedding day, a new mom waiting to give birth to her child,...

As I write this, we are a few days away from the election, and I pray that the next President of the United States will govern with...

Today’s Gospel is a very familiar passage stating the Greatest Commandment. The story, in particular the restating of the Shema, reminds...

As I write this piece celebrating Mary Magdalene on her feast day, I keep thinking how beloved she must be to so many of us who write for...

I was standing in a Mexican town square, looking at the facade of a church, when my phone pinged. I was feeling homesick during my study...

Mary is a woman who has known grief. Certainly as a mother, her own child was killed. But also just as a woman.

As someone 2,000+ years removed from Christ’s death and resurrection, I can find it easy to chuckle at the apostles’ lack of...

The miracles of Jesus served many purposes; of course, they were service to those who most needed healing, but they also supported Jesus’...

Today's Readings I am learning to dig deeply into the places that hurt The Canaanite woman knows she is not of Jesus’ people and yet she...

In my office, I have a framed picture called, The Four, by Tricia Robinson. It depicts the four women mentioned in Matthew's genealogy of...

“In accordance with the Scriptures” Our Creed is steeped in Scripture. We’ve seen scriptural references in some of our reflections, so...