Category: Reflections
TAC Synodality Week: The Roots of Disillusionment by Anne Kerrigan
I hope I’m wrong, but my past experience with the plans for a synod has made me cynical of such a process.
A Poem by Andrew Kaufman
"Three Tutsis survived, / says a plaque near the church / in Kibuye."
Hope Is Always Ahead, Never Behind: Reflections at 90 by William John Fitzgerald
Looking back serves nostalgia, but when we look ahead, we search for signals of hope.
Light of Tabor: A Transfiguration Meditation by Michael Centore
Fire on the mountain: a meditation for the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6.
The Butterfly Effect by Fran Salone-Pelletier
Be it rising prices or lowered expectations, there is an assault on our desire and need for deep peace.
Two Poems by Walker Storz
"The past is not the / past, time is not a / line, but a / Twisted juniper tree"
Two Poems by John Zedolik
". . . flesh sharing / in the day that cracked as well / and carries its hour into this entropy . . ."
A Poem by Wally Swist
"before the range / of small mountains lush with the greens of summer / cast their shadows in the rain light . . ."
Corruptions of the Heart by Nancy Enright
What can the work of J. R. R. Tolkien teach us about gun violence?
On Being Seriously Free, Not Stubbornly Liberal by Fran Salone-Pelletier
A reflection on two experiences of synodal listening. "It was here, in this room, at this time, that we were one."
There Is No Godly Justification for Guns by Julie A. Ferraro
Any Catholic who currently owns firearms should turn them in to law enforcement to be destroyed.
Race and the Fall by Pieter Dykhorst
We must unravel the “otherism” at the core of human nature that infects all relations and from which racism springs.
A Poem by Gerard Garrigan, OSB
"That river that was within you and through, / And through you that river there did still pulse . . ."
A Prayer for Graduates by Julie A. Ferraro
Remember: It takes more than the outer forms of religion to heal the divisions of our society and bring justice to the oppressed.