Our country is mourning for countless tragedies and violent deaths. While public expressions of grief are on full display, home is where we do most of our grieving, praying and processing.
Death and Dying
Posted inPodcasts
How do you know if you’ve had a mystical experience?
One of the dangers of talking about mysticism is that people can feel sad or left out if they feel that they have not been gifted with such an experience of the divine.
Posted inNews
Duchess of Kent, a royal who chose faith and service, dies at 92
The duchess was received into the Catholic faith by Cardinal Basil Hume in 1994 in a private ceremony at Westminster Cathedral.
Posted inIdeas
The funeral spirituality of New Orleans
The first jazz funeral I saw was in November of 1973. I had never seen such a beautiful event.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
In memory of a smile and a friendship that cured a whole town
A Reflection for Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Zac Davis
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Remembering Roger Haight: generous teacher, humble Jesuit and incomparable friend
Well before “public theology” became a watchword, he had set about rethinking the language of faith in the contemporary world—all with typical understatement and modesty.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Sacred Gift of Summer Camp on Texas’s Guadalupe River
Over 20 years ago, I was a college student who didn’t want to return to an unstable home. So instead, I found a job as a lifeguard at a Christian summer camp in the Texas Hill Country.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Virginia Konchan, a poet of miracles
In ‘Requiem,’ her fifth book, Virginia Konchan takes the sacred seriously. She’s jocular with her subjects, including God, yet in doing so she demonstrates sustained attention toward the divine. God is among her natural poetic vocabulary.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Choosing to be with my father when he died was a hard decision. It was also a good one.
Like my discernment to enter religious life, it was a gut reaction I acted on and did not look back.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Patients deserve better than medical assistance in dying
When people face incurable illness, fear of the unknown is a major force that can drive their thinking. The task of physicians is to help calm people and correct their misunderstandings.