More often than not, students will complain about having to endure at least one course of Latin. In Amercian high schools, and I dare say seminaries, the commo...
Some years back, I was visiting religious orders. I wanted to serve God, and pursue sanctity, by living in community and doing intellectual work. Joining the Do...
Did you know that Milwaukee has a city flag? It’s one of the busiest flags around, featuring a barley stalk, a large gear, an Indian, an elongated boat with a t...
The Lucca Madonna, Jan van Eyck, 1436.Does it make you squirm? Here is the Virgin Mary, the Madonna, Our Lady -- in a state of undress. Motherhood is well an...
Can you receive communion if you are divorced and remarried? According to Pope Francis, Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Cupich, the Argentinian Conference of Bishops...
Recognizing that our Church was dying where she once thrived, Saint Pope John Paul II, in his 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, first introduced the concept o...
It’s easy to forget as you stand on the lakeshore in high summer under a sun like a Klieg light, but Milwaukee is a place with plenty of cloud and damp. This is...
Some of us know the joy of traveling in Italy, land of art and culture, couture and cuisine... and, not coincidentally, stronghold of the Church and home of sai...
Sometimes when I pray, whether it be meditating on the mysteries of the Holy Rosary or doing Lectio Divina, biblical scenes colorfully unfold in my mind. I can ...
I recently read an article in the Guardian about a new fad: curating one’s death. Two concrete practices of the fad illustrate what I mean by ‘curating one’s de...