All Creation Groans (with Charleston)
The violence present in our hearts, wounded by sin, is also reflected in the symptoms of sickness evident in the soil, in …
The Images We Live By: International Women’s Day 2015
International Women’s Day is celebrated annually on March 8 around the world. I was honored to be invited to participate this morning, …
Seeds of Life and Love: The Contested Identity of Catholic Universities
Our partner blog at Daily Theology is running a fabulous series of posts on the much-contested question of the identity and mission …
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 …
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 …
The Concrete God: Living, Breathing, and Loving
The Pope’s recent interview with America magazine has been haunting my evening thoughts and invading my daily prayer. The following passage I …
Minding the Gap: In Thanksgiving for Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P.
In the Sunday Gospel today, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus who lay hungry and …
What We Have Looked Upon and Touched with Our Hands
We are bombarded daily by so many images it’s easy to miss the diamond flashing in the rough. But this one stopped …
A Requiem for Empathy?
I don’t think we’ll see a great many people celebrating in the streets over the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman. …
