Amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Lenten season, calling on the Mother of Sorrows feels all the more urgent.
Virgin Mary
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Read: Pope Francis’s prayer to Mary during coronavirus pandemic
Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God.
Posted inFaith, Video
Jesuit Autocomplete | Season 2, Episode 5: Catholics
Fr. Eric Sundrup, S.J., and Fr. Paddy Gilger, S.J., answer some of the Internet’s most searched questions about Catholics.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A pilgrim in search of grace
In her fourth book, The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions Into Devotion, Sonja Livingston introduces herself as a “pilgrimess” returning to her childhood church in Rochester, N.Y., after not regularly attending Mass for 20 years.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What all sinners have in common with addicts
Can anyone adequately define what it means to be an alcoholic? Someone who regularly abuses alcohol is physically ill because of biological, even genetic, factors. And, like anyone suffering from a psychological pathology, an alcoholic’s free will is typically curtailed. Finally, as with any sinner, there’s probably no alcoholic who doesn’t bear some moral responsibility […]
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Mary, motherhood and the meaning of vulnerability
The vulnerability of the Virgin still dispels distortions that we would create about her Son. He is not a figure of myth nor the creation of dogma. He is a man born to a woman, living in poverty.
Posted inFaith, Features
Poet Mary Szybist: Whose version of Mary am I holding?
A poet reflects in the 2019 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize essay.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
The Scandal of Knock: God can transform any nowhere into somewhere
Father Matt Malone, S.J., reflects on God’s grace can grace can transform nowheres into somewheres, and nobodies into somebodies.
Posted inFaith, News
Britons return statue of the Virgin Mary to Argentina at Vatican
Pope Francis has appeared to wipe away tears during a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square for the return of a Virgin Mary statue from Britons to Argentina.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
‘The Translation of the House of Loreto’
You bet it takes a miracle to explain