
The Gift of Black Catholics to the Universal Church
I am grateful to all who virtually attended the 15th Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture,” on February 21, 2021, and …
I am grateful to all who virtually attended the 15th Annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture,” on February 21, 2021, and …
“In our world today there are some prophets like John the baptizer, who are spectacular. They prepare our hearts to see Jesus. …
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a …
Author’s Note: Today is the 52nd anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton, or better, his Second Birth, into new life with …
O Wisdom, you came forth from the mouth of the most High, and reaching from beginning to end, you ordered all things …
One day last spring, my sixteen-year-old daughter, our artist-in-residence, came to me in a quandary. Grace was determined to begin a new …
Certain realities in life we only see through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Pope Francis In January 2015, Pope Francis …
Elijah McClain 25 February 1996 – 30 August 2019 – just posted tonight by my friend, the artist and iconographer, William Hart …
Author’s Note: It has long been my conviction that artists have a unique and potentially transformative role in bending the long “arc …
When my book Hope Sings, So Beautiful was published in 2013, it felt a little like I was singing — or perhaps …