As the Rev. Fletcher Harper wrote: “If religion cannot provide meaningful leadership on one of the most pressing issues facing the human family, then it will lose its ability to…
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. [One] experiences [oneself] . . . as something separated from…
You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. . . . And know that you are in good company. My…
Fr. Richard Rohr, Reflection: The Most Essential Thing, Sunday, October 28, 2018 The most powerful, most needed, and most essential teaching is always Love. Love is our foundation and our…
Between our frantic attempts to protect our lives from intrusion and our refusal, unlike Mary and Joseph, to welcome God, whom we did not choose and who has shown himself…
At the first press briefing for the Synod, the optics were impressive — a image selling the promise of the finer things to come. The Synod briefing process has historically been…
By Thomas Reese in the National Catholic Reporter, Oct 1, 2018 The future of the Catholic Church is with the young, which is why Pope Francis has called bishops from…
Three commitments ran through the presentations, as diverse as they were: (1) the goodness of God’s creation, and our responsibility to care for it; (2) the dignity of every human…
