COMMENTARY

Smiling behind your mask

There is great irony in the twists and turns of our journey through COVID-19. 

Teach us to fight racism

The Catholic Church never taught me how to fight racism.

Learning how to saunter: the gifts of quarantine

Tonight I wrote two events on my calendar: a birthday party and a Baptism. 

New 'Directory for Catechesis': A timely invitation to catechetical renewal

The long-awaited "Directory for Catechesis" from the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization arrives at a most timely moment ...

Rediscover the miraculous

It seems like just about every community in the world has undergone some form of quarantine ...

Living off the labor of others

One of my daily rituals during the pandemic has been to take a walk in my neighborhood. 

It’s time for the Church to lead by example

A new kind of front line is emerging on the scene of the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States ...

After protests, work for racial justice

I grew up in farm country where community was maintained by certain customs.

Father Koch: Christ Is truly present with us

Over the past three months, Catholics throughout the world were largely deprived of the privilege of sharing in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. 

The challenge of the pandemic: doing what's right

Three times in my lifetime the United States has suffered a surprise attack for which it was woefully unprepared.

Some advice on prayer from an old master

At the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way.

How faith grows in quarantine

Families have never been closer. Families have never been farther apart.

99-year-old Catholic beats coronavirus, inspiring legions

"Rock star." That was how the nurses and physicians in Stony Brook Hospital in New York described 99-year-old Ann Giardano. 

Doing our part to care for our common home

Maybe you've read about people, who during our time of pandemic isolation, ...

At the heart of faithful friendship

I grew up in a close family and, one of hardest things I ever did was to leave home and family at the age of 17 ...


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