The Church’s Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy begins...
(This post by Paulist Fr. Ron Franco first appeared at City Father.) In P.D. James’ dystopian novel, The Children of Men (1992), a group that meets...
We have to call the actions of those who acted in Paris what they are: Sins. Acts of deliberate hatred.
The plastic marble lobby of Madison Square Garden on the other side of the metal detectors the line of those seeking to be shriven doesn’t...
A video reflection on the struggle for justice at the University of Missouri.
Two people go on a contemplative prayer retreat. At the end of the retreat, one says, “I am so disappointed. I was bored, restless, full...
Julian Bond’s death last Sunday ended a rich, action-filled and effective life. As the radio listed all the things he was involved in, right up...
The culture wars in this country reveal a lot of division. Election politics will play on this. There will be talk of the need to...
“So you aren’t going to be a Paulist? Great!” That may seem like an odd reaction for a vocations director. In working through a process...
There is a long history of saying something or someone is not human so that we can be rid of it. When the first settlers...
The boat is called Wayfinder. I sailed on it a week ago yesterday in the waters off Howth in Ireland. It was a perfect Irish...
I like this term, “media literacy.” Most of us are media illiterate in some area. We believe something because of its source. We are pretty...