Jerusalem asks more questions than it answers. Its literalness, the flesh of its existence in history, its churches with their layers of history is fascinating, and embarrassing.
The comforts of feasting—instant light, warmth, travel, food—have become so common that we talk about being "less materialistic" at Christmas. But God loves feasting
“For me, Dorothy Day was the most engaging and engaged person I have ever met. Even now, seventeen years after her death in 1980, I think of her almost daily, with deep affection.
Thomas is the patron of all of us who would try to see Christ for ourselves, who would dare to draw close, to reach out and touch him and know him as Lord
"I have wanted to create for myself a devotion to Mary that honors her as woman, as mother, that rejects the wickedness of sexual hatred and sexual fear."
With the election of Pope John Paul II, we are facing one of those events marking a change in our vision of the world. Examining such events can even cause us to give up a few prejudices.
The Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees, who would rather risk the South China Sea in small fishing craft than stay where they are, deserve better from the United States.
Black Catholics are reaffirming their bonds with other Blacks, while embracing their identity as Catholics— and hopeful agents of racial progress within the Church.
We live in a world and in a Church that are changing at a mad pace—indeed, in the next decade both the United States and American Catholicism may face the greatest challenges either has ever seen.
