“I don’t know what my body is for, other than carrying my head from room to room.” John Mulaney I practice Centering Prayer. Two twenty minutes periods a day sitting […]

Where is the church’s credibility? On what subjects does the church possess authority to which it can credibly speak anymore? Throughout history, the church was lauded and acclaimed as ‘the […]

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My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in […]

Construction for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris was begun in 1160. Eight hundred miles away and twenty one years later, in 1181, Giovanni Pietro di Bernardone (later known as […]

Kathleen Norris,  The Cloister Walk, 1997 “Nearly every morning I walk past a young tree — some sort of locust — that signifies survival against all odds. Most likely it […]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to […]

St. Ann Catholic Church and School in Prairie Village, Kansas has banned a child of a same-sex couple from attending their Catholic grade school. Superintendent Kathy O’Hara, in a statement […]

My mother says I was sick a lot as a baby. Growing up, I often had a bad stomach. The smell of heat made me nauseous. If I was sitting […]

The Man in the Moon stands and strides. On his boatfork (i.e., pike pole) he bears his burden. It’s a wonder that he hasn’t slid down; in fear, lest he […]