Oh the poor starving Africans! the six of us looking at each other like are you kidding me...

Why is it this way? It is the child’s most basic question, dealing with the most bewildering thing of all.

As churches have opened up all over the country, there has been a particularly powerful and graced “letting go” available for some Catholics.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Ambrose

Christ bursts into the manger, quickened into cows

This is the prayer: Accept things as they are. It was all meant to be.

Poetry is an attempt to say the unsayable, to capture what ultimately eludes.

Would you take your daughter there, the unholiest there you guess you could go?

You are called to become obedient enough to serve the God who invites you to do seemingly very little. The God who himself apparently does nothing as the disease spreads.

New American poetry that spans the globe.