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Dropping meat from our Friday menus has the double benefit of reducing our carbon footprints (however minimally) and bringing us closer to the Lord.
A Catholic pastor receives the first of the two Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations
Priests navigate Catholics' fears and hesitancies in vaccine exemption requests to balance love for neighbor and self with individual conscience.
The rising nationwide spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is leading church leaders to strongly encourage—or even require—Massgoers to use facial coverings while attending indoor Masses.
Women show their health passes to a waiter in Paris on Aug. 19, 2021. France, Italy, Denmark and the U.S. cities of New York, San Francisco and New Orleans are among the places that have imposed vaccination requirements at places like restaurants, gyms and theaters as the Delta variant of Covid-19 spreads. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
It can be dispiriting, even infuriating, to imagine our future with Covid-19. Spiritual exercises inspired by Ignatius can help us become more aware and move past our anger.
A cross in silhouette against the sunset in a field with birds flying in the distance.

‘Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will surely not lose his reward.’ (Mk 9:41)

‘If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all.’ (Mk 9:35)

Michael Vaccari
Our first four presidents—George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison—were influenced by the Enlightenment, but even more so by the classical Greeks and Romans.
But this Christ, son of Nazareth, king of the Jews, is asking God why he has been forsaken. His face is upturned, mouth open, his body rebelling against its wooden constraints, wracked by human suffering.
I don’t understand why some of my students are allowed to suffer as he did. But the knowledge of Christ’s death stanches my anger long enough that I am able to entertain the idea that there is still a point to serving this God.
The school offers an accessible but thorough examination of the Christian contemplative tradition by combining online study with in-person symposiums.
Students of all backgrounds choose to attend this thriving Catholic high school imbued with the stability and spirit of the monks who founded it.