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We need rituals to mourn
CommentaryCoronavirusGuest Commentary

We need rituals to mourn

Laura Kelly FanucciMarch 2, 20213 min read
Theologians and liturgists praise the power of rituals at the core of our faith. Rhythms of prayer and traditions of worship orient our lives toward God and set a solid foundation in an ever-shifting world.
This Lent, risk prayer
CommentaryGuest CommentaryLent

This Lent, risk prayer

Father Richard Malloy, S.J.March 1, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryLent

Lent’s promise in bleak times

Elise Italiano UreneckFebruary 18, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryLent

Ash Wednesday: Guided by St. Clare of Assisi

Shemaiah GonzalezFebruary 16, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryRacial Justice

Claudette Colvin: The spark before Rosa Parks

Carole Norris GreeneFebruary 9, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryCoronavirusGuest Commentary

Add and multiply to subtract our losses

Laura Kelly FanucciFebruary 4, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryRacial Justice

Names for public spaces matter

Shannen Dee WilliamsJanuary 26, 20215 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryRacial Justice

Exhaustion meets new beginnings

Hosffman OspinoJanuary 19, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest Commentary

History’s greatest inaugural speeches

Elise Italiano UreneckJanuary 14, 20214 min read
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
CommentaryGuest CommentaryRacial Justice

A final requiem for an extraordinary nun and champion of Black Catholic history

Shannen Dee WilliamsJanuary 5, 20215 min read
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.
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