Imagine sitting in mass surrounded by hundreds of people that you love. It is hard to convey the deep sense of communion that I have felt in these moments at the high school where I have taught for the last six years. For tens of millions of Americans, such experiences are quite rare or even… Read More How Can We Rebuild Community in an Era of Extreme Individualism?
via the Vatican: In the context of the ongoing digital revolution, we must rediscover, emphasize and cultivate our duty to train others in critical thinking, countering temptations to the contrary, which can also be found in ecclesial circles. There is so little dialogue around us; shouting often replaces it, not infrequently in the form of… Read More Pope Leo: Let the Voice of the Poor be Heard
Check out these recent articles from around the web: I Should Have Seen This Coming by David Brooks: “If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers. To borrow from Thucydides, the strong do what they want, and the weak suffer what they must. This is the logic of… Read More Around the Web
Millennial writer Sr. Bethany Welch writes: My prayer is that the man the cardinals selected as pope can help us renew a sense of communion. The Catholic Church is at its best when our efforts foster union and cultivate love, when we function not as a bureaucracy needing to be managed, but as a mystery… Read More The Greatest Challenge Pope Leo XIV Faces
I miss Pope Francis. Although he had been seriously ill for several months, his death on Easter Monday was a shock and made it hard for me to savor the joy of the Easter Season. Pope Francis had a gift for reaching people on an affective level. A lot can be said about Francis and… Read More “Authority is Service”: Grateful for Francis, Hopeful for Leo XIV
In our Gospel today, Jesus tells his disciples: “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” What does this really mean—“As I have loved you?” How did he love them? He called them. He listened to them. He healed them. He fed them. He led them. He taught them. He trusted… Read More Love is Fundamental
Fr. James Martin, longtime chaplain of Colbert Nation, offered his thoughts on the new pope on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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