“To step outside my safe, warm car for just a minute each time I wanted to take a picture sucked all the air out of my lungs. It was exhilarating and terrifying.”
Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel hones in on a religious community fifty years in the past, one that successfully conveys the emotional tenor of social media today.
In the face of precariousness and uncertainty, religious orders and lay Catholic communities model how to live in relation with both one other and God.
American attention on Afghanistan often neglects the material needs of ordinary Afghans, especially food security, which is now being threatened by climate change.
If the Eucharist is an encounter with the living person of Jesus Christ, then disaffiliation from the Eucharistic liturgy is defection from Jesus Christ himself.
