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Fire and Flood   ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).   During this fast, I have experienced an acute pain in my chest, as...

Redemption>Republican  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    One fallacy from this election season? All conservative...

Bridging the Divide              ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Elections are always polarizing. Still, I...

This post was originally published on 10/08/18 While waiting in line at the market, I observed two young Latina women in matching jean...

“The bishops are oblivious to the implications of Fiducia Supplicans,” I grumbled to my spiritual director. “I don’t think that’s true,...

Leveraging Church Hypocrisy #2 ‘God loves you, He made you gay, the pope loves you, and you must love yourself.’ - Pope Francis to ‘gay’...

Peace Like a River ‘The hope of Christianity, the prospect of faith is ultimately based quite simply on the fact that it tells the...

Peace Interrupted ‘They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious, “Peace, peace” they say, when there is no peace.’ -...

After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing pain) to not use LGBTQ+ language in defining people, I wrote...

Dear Pope Francis, I just returned from a Living Waters group where Jesus is healing broken lives aspiring to chastity. My co-teacher...

Dear Pope Francis, Thank you for championing the oppressed; you help create level ground on which they regain footing and dignity. As the...

‘He suffused me without difficulty, burst my shame and the thoughts I’d suppressed… As if He had touched a rhythm in my temples and...

‘Those who go out weeping, carrying seeds to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them’ (Ps. 126:6). As we prepped...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

Twice now I have discerned the call to marriage. Once with a woman and once with a man. I am a woman driven by my desire to love fully,...

Forgive my boldness for addressing you on your public ‘trans’ declaration; I don’t know you at all, so I am reduced to a virtual...