Last Thursday morning my mother and I headed to upstate New York for our Thanksgiving visit with her sister rsquo s family Van Morrison accompanied our conversations as he so often does in my mother rsquo s car It is a trip we have made many times in many different states of mind Last year the

Last week I attended a conference on Restorative Justice at Villanova University that brought together people from various disciplines and legal categories There were judges prosecutors and defense attorneys probation and police officers sociologists theologians social workers educators and m

I have been thinking about the martyrs in the church rsquo s recent history mdash among them Martin Luther King Jr the Ursuline missionaries Jesuits and companions in El Salvador Dorothy Stang Oscar Romero mdash those people who you might say carried within them a bit of crazy a lot of courag

Last week I met a woman named Beth whose example lodged itself deep inside my mind It so struck me that I have shared it as best I can five times since we met Beth runs Place of Promise a Christian non-profit with a residential program ldquo designed to help those who are hurting lost and

A reflection for National Vocation Awareness Week from a student discerning the call to religious life.