My fishing life has been a series of snagged lines and broken dreams.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How can we cure cataracts on the soul?
It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Living into Mystery: Karl Rahner’s Reflections on his 75th Birthday
“The center of my theology? Good Lord, that can’t be anything else but God as mystery and Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, as the historical event in which this God turns irreversibly toward us in self-communication.”
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The case for taking up the Ignatian examen in the New Year
Along with the special communication of Scripture, God reaches us through the experience of a given day.
Posted inFaith, Features
These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty.
Discussions of capital punishment do not often address how death sentences affect the people who are left behind.
Posted inEspañol, La Palabra
La Natividad del Señor
Para festejar este día santo, la Iglesia nos propone unos fragmentos de la Sagrada Escritura que dan sentido al misterio que celebramos.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: Get to Mass early; don’t calculate how late you can be
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Don’t be late for Mass believing the introductory rites do not matter, Pope Francis told visitors and pilgrims. The words and gestures that open the celebration help the faithful come together as one and prepare them to listen to the Word of God and celebrate the Eucharist worthily, he said Dec. […]
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Kirsten Powers worked for Bill Clinton and Fox News. She has some thoughts on sexual harassment.
Have we reached a turning point in how we handle sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Feast of the Holy Innocents: 2,000 years later we still remember the pain their mothers felt
Thirty-four years ago I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Catching Sight of Grace
Family life in the Bible is both difficult and grace-filled.