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Photo from Praying the Lectionary ~Observations of An Accidental Catholic How welcoming is your church? Are there Ushers at the door to greet and direct ...

Jump Rope, New York, 1956, by Imogen Cunningham Peel a banana upside down See if you can touch the ground If you spell your name correct You may say the al...

A Stammbaum Christi or "Family Tree of Christ" illustration based on the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th c.) Today is the Feast of the Nativi...

Joan Rivers photographed by Seth Keal/IFC Films Today we mourn the death of a great comedian, Joan Rivers. It's not speaking ill of the dead to say that Riv...

Lili Liliana as a bride possessed by a dybbukOn the hard pews of the church down the block, I hear groans. People don't like the way Father says Mass. The music...

Christ Accused by the Pharisees (detail), Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca. 1311) Today's Gospel, like many in the past few days, gives us Jesus in confrontation w...

Today is the feast of Saint Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores de Oliva, 1586-1617). Let's give her a fresh look: Rose of Lima is kind of a drag. She had tho...

Jesus says to us today, The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field. It is like a pearl of great price. So where is this kingdom? I don’t see it. The Gospel says it’s hidden: a hidden treasure in the ground that the landowner doesn’t know is there. A pearl that is ignored until someone discovers its value. So the kingdom is hidden: but, in the Gospel, this kingdom is soon uncovered, this treasure is discovered, and put to use. The kingdom of God is at hand, as the Lord says (Mk 1:15)....

I am blessed to say that my Mother is many wonderful things.  She is bursting with a magnetic energy that makes everyone who knows her want to be closer. He...