That woman is in so many parishes, right there beneath the exit sign and almost out the door, singing while the roof gets ripped off and the sky falls.
Our shared faith in Christ is a precious inheritance that can by no means be taken for granted but must be re-appropriated ever anew.
Michelle Obama's autobiography is a powerful demonstration of what a strong woman can make of a “reluctantly” public life.
Colm Tóibín may have you reaching for your abandoned copy of "The Importance of Being Earnest" or "Dubliners," even if you have not touched those books since high school.
“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in ”Androcles and the Lion,” “than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.” Shaw’s line captures the outsize and frankly uneasy influence that St. Paul had on the early church.
The oddities of Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ should not be dismissed as defects.
Like a new Netflix series, the church today seems caught in an endless loop of accusations and revelations.