A Prayer for Every Child
“Truly there are too many tears this Christmas,” proclaimed Pope Francis during his Christmas address today in St. Peter’s Square to an …
Black Catholic History Month: An Invitation to Remember
November is Black Catholic History Month. This designation stands in its 24th year, named in 1990 by the National Black Catholic Congress of the …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 2: The Act of Knowing
Editor’s Note: This four-part blog series is contributed by John Slattery, and being co-published at Hope Sing’s Blog Partner, “Daily Theology.” Before you …
Becoming Anti-Oppressive, Part 1: Growing Up Racist and Misogynist and Catholic
Editor’s Note: This first of a four-part blog post is contributed by my friend John Slattery, presently doing his doctoral studies in …
Black, Catholic, and Proud: Can I Hear the People Say Amen?
Part of the challenge – and joy – of writing on race relations is not knowing or having it figured out ahead …
On Forming a New Kind of Humanity: Adolfo Nicolás, SJ
Religion is less a code of doctrines and moral teachings than it is a sensitivity to the “dimensions of transcendence that underlie …
Theotokos: The Christ Taking Birth Forever
Like Mary, says St. John of the Cross, “each of us is the midwife of God, each of us.” What would it …
A New Center (Where the Gospel Requires Us to Be)
In Calcutta just weeks before his death, Thomas Merton famously described the monk, and thus himself, as a “very strange kind of …
“I Went to the Woods”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if …
“Are You Walkin’ with Us?”
November is Black Catholic History month. While teaching a new course on “The Black Catholic Experience” this semester, the one thing that’s …
