To say that recent months have been stressful and strange would surprise no one. For those of us in ministerial roles, the unthinkable has happened: We’ve been called to provide service with minimal physical presence […]
In this column I will be telling, in brief, the tale of two men — and more. One of the masterpieces painted by Henry Ossawa Tanner is my all-time favorite depiction of the Blessed Virgin Mary. […]
Black Lives Matter is the voice that has been dominating the news for the past few weeks. Not only on the matter of systemic racism, but on the disproportionate number of African Americans being affected […]
When Sister Philomena tried to wrap the minds of second-graders around the concept of the Blessed Trinity, she used an egg. There’s the white, the yolk, and the shell, she explained, but it’s all one […]
Sometimes imagining how the hundreds of groups which call themselves Christian might ever come together is as challenging as spilling out 1,000 pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and asking a family which has never done […]
We’ve been hearing some dire warnings about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in the fall and winter. We have also heard about the likely slowness of economic recovery, which can mean continued unemployment, closing of […]
NEW YORK—Polish films on Catholic themes run the gamut of taste. On one side is 2013’s exquisite “Ida” in which the novice nun of the title (Agata Trzebuchowska) learns that, although raised Catholic, she’s really […]
It’s been hard not to feel as though we’ve all been transported to an edgy fantasyland or a slightly earth-like but yet unearthly planet. When we do our calculated forays to the grocery store, everyone there […]
Those of us who have attended Holy Thursday’s liturgy for decades could never have imagined this year’s. We have always assumed that we would be eyewitnesses to the washing of feet, receive Communion, play a […]
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