Making Festive Fools of Ourselves
In recent years, I’ve been on a mission to celebrate all 12 days of Christmas.
Mrs. Maisel’s Mistake
It seems passé for a 21st-century streaming series to send the message that a woman can’t have it all. So what gives?
The Mundane Bread of Heaven
Jesus has a pattern of coming to us on days that seem normal.
St. Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and Martyr
What made Thomas à Becket a saint was finding the life God had hidden for him in the role to which he was called.
The Good News in a Picardy Third
Death was not the end for the Holy Innocents. Through the Christ Child God made right this wrong.
Tradition and the Puzzling Gospel of St. John
Tradition may be self-correcting.
The Martyr’s Death and the Birth of Christ
Stephen’s brief ministry and death participate in and therefore set before us the continuous act of suffering known as the incarnation of the Divine Word.
Darkness Falls
On Christmas Eve Day, night has not yet come; darkness has not yet fallen. But it will come.