Second Wednesday of Advent

The brutal and bruising campaign of 2016 is finally behind us, but Kaveny’s call for a politics infused with vigilance, not vitriol, has by no means outlived its usefulness.

For some, El Salvador was a shameful episode, in which Washington backed the perpetrators of a death squad bloodbath in a failed attempt to militarily defeat a homegrown leftist insurgency.

This is not a history we Americans like to ponder.

At the end of this election year, a time for silence seems sorely needed.

Courage can erupt in the most unexpected corners.

To those who lived in that world of fear, it must have seemed absurd that an infant would be the answer to their fear.

Without the weeks I spent easing back into prayer, I would not be alive today.

The Jesuits had lost their way, some thought, especially in Latin America, where the sons of Ignatius had embraced liberation theology.

Sometimes it’s not the infant’s holy face that awes us