There rsquo s something similar to ourselves in a saint something quite strange as well We heed our own humanity in a holy one but the familiar flows into the foreign It rsquo s as though in our encounter with the saint we espy two presences rather than one The person we see and another whom w

Like her Christ, Kateri took the apparently senseless suffering and death that is the lot of any human being and gave it meaning.

From ldquo Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare rdquo Dennis storms into a welfare office with Dee ldquo Hi I rsquo m a recovery crackhead This is my retarded sister whom I take care of I rsquo d like some welfare please rdquo From ldquo The Waitress is Getting Married rdquo Charlie ponders wha

Stephen Herrman lived his entire life in Kansas within a few miles of a small collection of limestone wood and sod houses called Liebenthal The German name means ldquo lovely valley rdquo though there was none in sight on those flat Kansas plains It was named after a village founded by

Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time B On October 11 the Catholic Church and indeed the broader world will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council For some of you this date is simply an historical fact others remember it vaguely while others experienced its

September 2004 Al Tafar Nineveh Province Iraq Murph pointed to the low hills around the city Small fires had sprung up in the distance A few city lights and the fires on the hillsides burned like a tattered quilt of fallen stars ldquo It rsquo s beautiful rdquo I whispered I was not sure i