On Election Day, November 6, 2012, I picked up an August issue of the National Catholic Reporter from amongst the reading materials on my night-stand. In an article about the National Black Catholic Congress, these words stood out: “We believe…
“People are suffering. All over the place, people are suffering.” Sr. Margaret Farley, professor emerita, Yale Divinity School. According to the National Catholic Reporter, a keen awareness of people’s suffering is what drives the Mercy sister and celebrated theologian to…
Well, Kaysie McAlister’s two keychains, one with St. Michael and the other bearing a mustard seed buried in a blue glass bubble arrived over the weekend. They are everything I had hoped they would be: clean, shiny talismans of faith,…