I am usually not one to call for big changes or support radical ideas. If the church has worked this way for 2,000 years, I used to think, who are we to change it now?

A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter, by Jill Rice

A Reflection for Tuesday of Holy Week, by Jill Rice

The St. Monica Ministry is composed mostly of mothers but welcomes anyone who wishes to meet regularly to pray for people who have left the Catholic Church.

With great poetry God is not only in the details, but in the details of the details.

A Reflection for Friday of the First Week of Lent, by Jill Rice

The genre that spawned “Bridgerton” is perhaps the least Catholic type of fiction available today, but its relationships are more Catholic than expected.

Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs, by Jill Rice

Coaching ice skating, in some ways, isn’t far from teaching others about the church: It requires a knowledge of the rules involved, but it also means that I, too, must be willing to learn and listen and respond.

A Reflection for Thursday before Epiphany, by Jill Rice