guest commentary 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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. Previous 1 … 1 2 3 … 14 Next