Category: Reflections

The Social Heart by Jeromiah Taylor

The heart is the antidote to hollow politics: the heart insists that persons are the value, the metric, the rule.
November 21, 2024/by tac

A Royal Homecoming by Fran Salone-Pelletier

A reflection on the readings for the Feast of Christ the King.
November 20, 2024/by tac

Seeking the Face of Christ: Part III—A Spirit of Eucharistic Hope by Ged Ayotte

Synodal conversation in the Spirit must allow for the prayerful critical thinking of the people of God, not as their baptismal right but as their very responsibility in Christ.
September 30, 2024/by tac

Wood and Nails by Wally Swist

I’ve never experienced loss on such a scale as I have in being a caregiver. I’ve never felt this alive before, either.
September 13, 2024/by tac

My Own End Horizon by Richard Lehan

Life finds ways to school us in death, independent of any intentional discipline.
September 10, 2024/by tac

Seeking the Face of Christ: Part II—The Leap of Divine Joy by Ged Ayotte

The second in a three-part reflection on global politics and institutional religion in the 21st century.
September 4, 2024/by tac

Two Labor Days by William Droel

St. Joseph, a carpenter, is associated with Labor Day in a roundabout way.
August 30, 2024/by tac

A Poem by Gerard Garrigan, OSB

"you are now there among them / torch all burning bright / your own crown won . . ."
August 29, 2024/by tac

Imaginary Rivalries by Julie A. Ferraro

These are the questions we must ask of those who seek power, whether through the upcoming election or within the church itself.
August 28, 2024/by tac

The Primacy of Charity by Abby Stidham

Did Christ not give us the very key to reinvigorating a slumbering mass, for making new these age-old issues?
August 16, 2024/by tac

Seeking the Face of Christ: Part I—The Plea of Bartimaeus by Ged Ayotte

The first in a projected three-part series on global politics and institutional religion in the 21st century.
August 12, 2024/by tac

Lifting the Lines of the Map: Synodality and a Sense of Place by Michael Centore

The first installment of an essay on understanding a synodal sense of place, incorporating elements from the latest Instrumentum Laboris.
August 7, 2024/by tac

The Wonder of the Outside Heart by Fran Salone-Pelletier

It all begins with an outpouring of love—specifically love that is moved with compassion, love that emerges from the wonder of an outside heart.
August 6, 2024/by tac

Return to Fountain Fullness by Patrick Carolan

If God would not find these acts acceptable in heaven, what makes us think that they should be acceptable on Earth?
July 22, 2024/by tac

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