Figure of Speech
Embrace the other, those who are different than us
Gerry Turcotte · June 27, 2025
Both times that I’ve been struck by a careless driver someone came forward to say, “I’ve got your back. I saw what happened.” I felt such gratitude that someone I didn’t know wanted to help. The parable of the Good Samaritan came to mind.
Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre · June 27, 2025
For many reasons, certainly among them challenges that I have been recently called upon to address, I have been reflecting again upon when things in life unexpectedly arise and demand our attention and our focus.
Culture à la Carte
Sr. Helena Burns · June 20, 2025
One big temptation for religious types when it comes to “Evolution,” is the belief that soul/spirit/the spiritual is also evolving (meaning, automatically becoming better and even transforming into some great unknown). I never bought this, even as a kid.
Seek the truth, no matter where it leads
Cheryl-Ann Smith · June 20, 2025
God is infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, so far beyond us. And yet, He is also simplicity. He is love.
Editorial
June 19, 2025
There is little doubt pro-lifers across North America braced for an onslaught of invective after news broke of “politically motivated” murders in Minnesota wrought by an apparent anti-abortion fanatic.
Questioning Faith
Mary Marrocco · June 19, 2025
As we come to trust God, suffering doesn’t go away but is changed. There’s no place it can go where joy cannot reach, but there’s a place joy can go where suffering cannot reach. That’s called love.
Andrea Mrozek · June 19, 2025
“For the smallest and most vulnerable people in our midst, a culture that despises dependence will endanger their lives,” writes Leah Libresco Sargeant in her forthcoming book, The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto.
Sr. Hosea Rupprecht · June 13, 2025
We need to ask ourselves: does my communication generate hope? If it doesn't, what do I have to do to change it?
The Mustard Seed
Glen Argan · June 13, 2025
For MacIntyre, the problem with modern ethical theories, rooted in the 17th century Enlightenment, is that they do not ask about the meaning of life or what it means to be a human person. Instead, they search for a rational basis for moral rules and come up empty.
Leah Perrault · June 12, 2025
There is a part of me that cannot resist the beauty of dandelions releasing single seeds on the breeze. They are an icon for me of the lessons of letting go.
