Love in the Trenches
One of my earliest childhood memories takes place during Mass. I’m lying half asleep on the kneeler, next to my father’s perfectly …
“Why Do You Seek the Living Among the Dead?” Praying the Resurrection with U2
“Love endures beyond any earthly power to extinguish it.” “Mothers of the Disappeared” is the final track on Irish rock band U2’s …
“He Offered His Life to God for His People”
Certain witnesses to love and hopefulness take our breath away. Their commitment to truth and the defense of life remind us, in …
The Divine in Female Form: Celebrating International Women’s Day
For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God’s majesty, and the image of his goodness. . …
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 …
Like Lightning from Heaven
“In our world today there are some prophets like John the baptizer, who are spectacular. They prepare our hearts to see Jesus. …
The Quickening of St. John the Baptist
“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a …
To Dare to Imagine Again: Pope Francis and Thomas Merton
Author’s Note: Today is the 52nd anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton, or better, his Second Birth, into new life with …
The Advent of Hope in a Beast of a Year
O Wisdom, you came forth from the mouth of the most High, and reaching from beginning to end, you ordered all things …
Advent Hope Through an Artist’s Eyes
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 …
