Category: Reflections

Featured Poets Week: Jeannine M. Pitas
Taking time to explore the work of some of our favorite poets. "She is a theologian I trust / to teach me again how to pray. . . ."
July 27, 2021/by tac
Mass After the Pandemic by Gene Ciarlo
What impact has the pandemic had on Christian faith and its communal practice?
July 20, 2021/by tac
The Catholic Bishops and Persuasion by William John Fitzgerald
Two 20th-century bishops modeled a "gentle persuasion"
that could be instructive for today's clerics.
July 13, 2021/by tacthat could be instructive for today's clerics.

Our Modern, White Temples by Michael E. DeSanctis
The hospital as hallowed site of ritual, transformation, and compassion.
July 8, 2021/by tac
Sacred Fire by Ed Burns
"For the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
June 30, 2021/by tac
To Unveil a Divine Goal Is to Discover Something Better by Fran Salone-Pelletier
A meditation on hope, and a tribute to one who embodied it to her core.
June 25, 2021/by tac
“Said to Godhead”: Two Poems by Christopher Grosso
"Even birth is a violent conflict between life and taring. . . ."
June 18, 2021/by tac
The Mystery in Ordinary Churches by Gerald W. Schlabach
The mystery of the Mass is that God has reached us in our dusty, motley, disagreeable, struggling communities.
June 17, 2021/by tac
Summer Reading Series: New Fiction from James Magner, MD
A selection from a new novel that celebrates the tradition of Irish Catholicism in 19th-century America.
June 10, 2021/by tac
Belief and the Believer by Nicole d’Entremont
The Eucharist as metaphor. How do you make real the answer to the imponderable?
June 4, 2021/by tac
Memories Are Made of This by Fran Salone-Pelletier
Memorial Day is an opportunity to publicly mourn those who we have lost and to reassess the costs of war.
May 31, 2021/by tac
Two Poems by Gerard Garrigan, OSB
"In Greeneland, no dreamland /
Where only the improbable is real . . ."
May 28, 2021/by tacWhere only the improbable is real . . ."

Communion and Solidarity by Ed Burns
How do we create flourishing parishes for the 21st century?
May 25, 2021/by tac
“We’ve Got to Find a Way to Bring Some Loving Here Today”: Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” at 50 by Chris Byrd
Released in 1971, "What’s Going On" remains a cry for greater solidarity and more love among the human family.
May 24, 2021/by tac