The Table and the Cross
Lately, anything to do with Catholics has felt like dysfunctional family dinners.
View ArticleBefore you Compare Yourself to Saint Catherine of Siena…
So, you’re Catholic and you wanna correct the Pope? And you wanna clap back at anyone who says you can’t correct the Pope, by referencing Saint Catherine of Siena? Awesome. Saint Catherine of Siena...
View ArticleA Reader Asks: Is the Eucharist Cannibalism?
A friend had a question: what do I say to a person, who is soon to be accepted into full communion with the Catholic Church, who keeps asking if the Eucharist is really a form of cannibalism? If I...
View ArticleNo Surprises, Only Grief, at the Parkland Massacre
It is now just after midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, on February Sixteenth. That means that, somewhere in Florida, seventeen different families have just finished their first full day of never seeing...
View ArticleSeven Last Words: Behold Your Son, Behold Your Mother
When Jesus saw His mother standing there, He said “Woman, behold thy son.” He said to the Beloved Disciple, “Behold thy mother.” And from that moment, the disciple took her into his home. In the...
View ArticleSeven Last Words: I Thirst
He thirsts. Knowing that everything had been accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I thirst.” Of course He thirsts. He is bleeding to death. The blood is nearly gone. It’s an...
View ArticleChrist is Coming to Heal the World
It has not been a good weekend. Rosie came down with a fever and the worst case of conjunctivitis I’ve ever seen. I used to get sties on my eyes, growing up, but this was a thousand times worse than...
View ArticleWhy Ask What Martin Luther King Would Have Wanted?
Today is Martin Luther King Junior Day. Today is the day that bloggers are supposed to think of something inoffensive to say about Martin Luther King, Junior. And, as a white woman, I don’t know...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Trump is a Genocide
As I write this, Turkey is murdering our Kurdish former allies, and we are to blame. President Trump ordered the troops out of Northern Syria earlier this week– no warning, just got rid of them in...
View ArticleEvery Town is Money
Today is the Roman Catholic feast of Saint Augustine, who was an African man with an African mother, though you wouldn’t know it by looking at most of his icons– and of Saint Moses the Strong, whom...
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