This Lent, risk prayer March 1, 2021By Father Richard Malloy, S.J. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent Don’t underestimate yourself. God has need of the talents you have been given. Prayer shows us how to use and multiply our gifts.
Lent’s promise in bleak times February 18, 2021By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.
Ash Wednesday: Guided by St. Clare of Assisi February 16, 2021By Shemaiah Gonzalez Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent This Lent, I call on St. Clare of Assisi to show me the way. I need a sister in Christ to lead me through Lent radically different than in Lents past — to embrace penance, conversion and self-sacrifice as Jesus refines me.
Claudette Colvin: The spark before Rosa Parks February 9, 2021By Carole Norris Greene Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice On March 2, 1955, Claudette was a 15-year-old frightened Black girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was jailed nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for the same civil disobedience, but not in the same way.
Add and multiply to subtract our losses February 4, 2021By Laura Kelly Fanucci Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary In a time when we feel deeply divided and we’ve lost so much, what could we add or multiply to help those who need it most?
Names for public spaces matter January 26, 2021By Shannen Dee Williams Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice As our nation and church continue to suffer the lethal effects of their ongoing failures to fully acknowledge and atone for centuries of slavery and segregation, the new Norman Francis Parkway is an important beacon of hope.
Exhaustion meets new beginnings January 19, 2021By Hosffman Ospino Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice The cavalier use of racist language in our public discourse, the rise of an emerging nationalism built upon anti-immigrant sentiments and the disdain for people who struggle with poverty, among other sociocultural misfits in our day, demand a communal examination of conscience.
History’s greatest inaugural speeches January 14, 2021By Elise Italiano Ureneck Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary Inaugurations speak to our innate need to start over from time to time, to express new hopes and fears, to realign our priorities and make sure the path we’re walking on is the right one.
A final requiem for an extraordinary nun and champion of Black Catholic history January 5, 2021By Shannen Dee Williams Catholic News Service Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Racial Justice In a racially and economically tumultuous year that saw a significant rise in calls for the church to acknowledge and make reparations for its largely unreconciled practices of slavery and segregation, the loss of Sister Reginald, and her expertise in African American Catholic history, was especially wrenching.
Do you hear what I hear? Family’s ‘bracket’ determines Christmas carol favorites December 17, 2020By Bo Smolka Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary, Schools The Smolka family explores how favorite Christmas carols stack up.
The joy of Advent and pregnancy December 10, 2020By Cassandra Palmer Catholic News Service Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary The Advent season is a reminder that our own childlike faith can hardly imagine what God has in store for us.
Christmas prayer: ‘Do you want to hold him?’ December 7, 2020By Father Richard Malloy, S.J. Catholic News Service Filed Under: Advent, Christmas, Commentary, Guest Commentary As I hold the savior of the world, all tiny and baby bald, smaller than a loaf of bread, I don’t do anything. Nor say anything. Silence is often the best conduit of God.
