I’m Talking To You, Ladies
MVJ
Jacqueline Kennedy leaves St. Francis Xavier Church after attending mass in Hyannis, Mass., on August 27, 1961. Mrs. Kennedy is wearing a salmon colored sheath...
Contributors
Death on a Summer Sunday
EMR
Jesus Healing the Woman with a Hemorrhage (from the Catacombs of Rome)
You come to a church on a sunny day and you might be a little distracted. This is a d...
Talismans, Superstitions, and the Resiliency of Faith
O.A.C.
My grandmother was a practical and pragmatic woman. Grandma descended from hardy Czech and Bohemian stock, but she suffered much loss in her life. My grandmothe...
Beauty on a Mountain
Meg
There is a palace on a mountain that beckons from time to time. All are welcome, and tourists, many from outside the Church, move quietly through the peace ...
The Annunciation and the Wise Virgins
EMR
How like our God to allow the fate of the world and all humanity to hang on the lips of a teenage girl from Nazareth.
Today is the Feast of the Annunciation,...
An Irreverence to Christ
O.A.C.
Photo courtesy of www.altarworthy.com
This Lent has been a very different Lenten experience than years past. I have had occasion to attend Holy Mass at thre...
The Sign
EMR
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) The Purification of the Temple, completed in 1600.
There are many signs in today's Gospel. But to understand them we hav...
Transfiguration Sunday
EMR
The modern-day Church of the Transfiguration (1924) on Mount Tabor in northern Israel.
This is Transfiguration Sunday, a good time to revisit this...
Papal Warnings Ignored
William
“Humility” and “reform” are the buzzwords of our day. The old, ostentatious, triumphalist Church must be demolished; and a new, stripped-down, populist Church m...
Divine Mercy in Milwaukee
Adam Scott
Not too long ago, I witnessed the greatest miracle in my life.
It all started one morning on my way to work. I was just about in my car when I received a...