“I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of good here in the city that recommends itself to the church.”
Delaney Coyne
Delaney Coyne is a Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., Fellow at America.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Be reckless in building the Kingdom of God
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne
Posted inFaith, Features
Catholic disability ministry is personal to me. Here’s where it’s thriving today—and where it still needs to grow.
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a part to play in the church’s work.
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Letting go is not the end
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, by Delaney Coyne
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How Jesus works through my grief and despair
A Reflection for Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne
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Struggling to understand Mary
A Reflection for the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, by Delaney Coyne
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The real lesson behind the ‘Father Justin’ AI priest debacle.
Robots can give you facts. But they can’t give you faith.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Spring poetry roundup: Mini catechisms in verse
In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.
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A surprising bit of comedy in Scripture
A Reflection for Friday in the Octave of Easter, by Delaney Coyne
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: In ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson treats the Bible like a great work of literature
In her latest book, ‘Reading Genesis,’ Marilynne Robinson writes of a God that is in love with humanity. In all our flaws and folly, power and glory, she insists, “Human beings are at the center of it all.”