He is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Indulge me, please, a little fiction — a brief imagining of what it might have been like for the guards who missed that moment when Christ defeated Death! – ES He was not afraid. Of course he was not. Only, he could not Read more…
Photo: Anc516-cc There is nothing like walking into a local mom and pop store and hearing the singular sound of a baseball game playing in the background — crack of the bat, whiff of the ball into the leather. It’s grounding in the way walking into a well-used church is Read more…
Image: Anthony Muhs, with permission Over at Word on Fire, my piece this week contemplates the “Lessons from the Rabbi on the Cross” — a meditation that came about thanks to the unusual cross featured above, not a crucified Christ, but also Christ the High Priest, and the King. For Read more…
Image: Public Domain In his testimony before the British Parliament, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christoper Wylie is testifying that Facebook has the ability to “listen in” on us as we go about our business at work and at home. Said Wylie: “On a comment about using audio and processing audio, you can Read more…
Nun talking to women on steps of Basilica of Guadalupe. Image: Daniel Case-cc It’s no secret that I have a high regard for Catholic nuns and religious sisters and believe that, since at least the Middle Ages, they have functioned much like the Central Nervous System of the Body of Read more…
Well, lookee what just arrived in my mailbox. I feel like it’s Christmas and I’ve just received a “major award” although not one marked “fragile”! Thanks to the Association of Catholic Publishers for recognizing my most recent book, Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bad Habits Before They Kick Read more…
To be perfectly honest, I approached writing my first piece for Word on Fire Ministries with a bit of trepidation — the old fear and trembling — both because I wanted to do right by this saint, and because it’s my first piece for Word on Fire Ministries, and I Read more…
In today’s Office of Readings, we come to the dramatic moment in Exodus 32, when stupid Aaron (really, what was he thinking?) tries to appease the unrelentingly dim multitudes by collecting their gold earrings and forming a calf for them to worship. So all the people took off their earrings Read more…
Featured Image: Rannah Evetts, Founder and Director of St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf, Uganda. St Francis de Sales School for the Deaf, photo source. Act, and God will act, work, and he will work. – St. Joan of Arc Joan of Arc’s advice plays out in full Read more…