Spirituality
Amid protests, healing for wounded hearts
With demonstrators for many causes filling city streets, Gina Christian reflects on Christ's promise to bind the wounds that drive us to cry out for redemption.
Amid a world in chaos, is suicide still a mortal sin?
Father Kenneth Doyle counsels a reader who asks if it's wrong to end one's life after losing everything to COVID and natural disasters. In response to a second reader, he clarifies what it really means to forgive.
All things hold together in Christ, even when you’re falling apart
Pandemic, protests and politics have left many frazzled and frayed, but St. Paul and a few physicists remind us God's love is the glue that eternally binds creation, writes Gina Christian.
Readings of the Holy Mass – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Read or listen to the readings before Mass with these resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, using the New American Bible, Revised Edition.
God’s love and mercy more lavish than we can imagine
Msgr. Joseph Prior explains the parable of the rich landowner hiring workers throughout the day as a sign of God pouring out his love beyond what we expect or deserve.
‘For us men’ and our mistranslation
Father Ken Doyle responds to a reader who wonders about the gender-specific words of the Nicene Creed said at Mass. He also explains why a non-Catholic person cannot be a baptismal sponsor.
Readings of the Holy Mass – 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Read or listen to the readings before Mass with these resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, using the New American Bible, Revised Edition.
Parables of mercy, old and new, remind of God’s gift
Mercy can save our life and that of the person whom we forgive, and it flows from recognizing that we have been forgiven, writes Msgr. Joseph Prior on this Sunday's Mass.
What a 600-year-long song can teach us
"As Slow As Possible" by composer John Cage finally changed chords after seven years, reminding us in the process that we need a major shift in our worldview, writes Gina Christian.
Readings of the Holy Mass – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Read or listen to the readings before Mass with these resources from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, using the New American Bible, Revised Edition.