A Song for Saint Joseph
My friend Beverlee Trindl and I attended Aquinas Dominican High School on Chicago’s south side. Our senior year we were asked by the choir...
The Grace of Divine Mercy
On Sunday 24 April 2022, the Second Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Divine Mercy Sunday. During the 1930’s St Maria Faustina Kowalska received...
Thou Art Christ, Son of the Living God
Who do people say that the Son of Man is? (Mt. 16:16) ⧾
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (Mt. 16:16)....
Feminist Follies – Part II
(tFollowing upon her first instalment in this three part-series, here Paula Adamick charts the advance of the feminist movement through the mid-20th century by...
Tattoo You?
An interesting factoid I recently came across, one borne out by anecdotal evidence, is that 3 out of 10 Americans now have tattoos, and...
Water in the Wasteland: Unexpected Elements of Hope and Redemption in Television...
I am the kind of person who sometimes derives hope from unusual things. As a lover of stories, I often will comment that a...
They Have no Wine: Our Lady’s Role in Salvation
I enjoy the way that John begins the story of the wedding feast at Cana because he presents Mary with a mysterious authority that’s...
Questions from Minneapolis
The recent shooting of pupils and elderly parishioners during morning Mass at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis has raised many questions. Some...
Saint John of the Cross: A Sound Teacher of True Love
Today, 14 December, we celebrate the feast of a great Spanish mystic, a friend and a co-reformer of the Carmelite religious family, namely Saint...
My Reason to Believe: A Eucharistic Poem
We are called to be Christ’s Light to the world and to spread the Gospel to all, unabashedly. The Holy Spirit gives us the...
