Category: Reflections
An Open Letter to Bishops on Climate Change by Ray Temmerman
You have faithfully lived your priestly vocation. I ask you now to live fully your prophetic one.
Absent from the Pew by Julie A. Ferraro
Until the bishops and priests gain an understanding of how the laity lives, people will continue to migrate away from the church.
A Poem by Walker Storz
". . . life which is too / vigorous, which wants / to be free of its / skin. . . ."
A Participatory Politics by William Droel
How do we pivot from political talk and spectacle to meaningful participation and change?
Seeing Through the Eyes of God
by Julie A. Ferraro
The church is finally confronting sins of racism in its past. But much more personal and institutional transformation still needs to occur.
Contemplative First, Writer Second
by Richard Lehan
A creative vision arises from truly beholding whatever lies before you, untainted by the impulse to consume it as writing “material.”
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 . . ."