“It has just expanded my worldview and deepened my spirituality," Susan Braddock said of her six years as board chair. ”That doesn’t happen that often in life.”

When it comes to the medical, legal and moral issues around abortion in high-risk pregnancies, it seems it will be necessary to face the gray.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church, by Delaney Coyne

A Reflection for Monday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne

In “O Holy Night,” we are reminded of the promise of the Incarnation and its continuing resonance today.

Whether you know it as Kairos, Spark, Magis or Encounter, we bet there was a song playing in the background that involved a banjo, a scraggly-bearded lead vocalist and lyrics about finding yourself through struggle.

The ongoing sexual abuse scandal involving the Rev. Marko Rupnik is another reminder of what the church needs to do to deal with this continuing plague.

With her release of the album “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”, Taylor Swift revisits the recording that transformed her from a star into a supernova, reflecting with joyful grace on the woman she was still becoming.

A Reflection for Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” explores a moment in American history not often read in history books—and not always reckoned with by our churches and country.