The story of the wedding banquet in Matthew 22 is supposed to be about God's just and peaceful kingdom. Then the king said to ...

Our spiritual community extends beyond humanity. And your creaturely companion could be waiting for you to join them in ...

Allison Holst-Grubbe offers a reflection for the twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 11, year A: To be clothed in ...

But St. Francis of Assisi is someone who still matters today, and in some surprising ways. In our time marked by increasing ...

Allison Holst-Grubbe serves as a cantor and Director of Community Engagement at St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church and The Franciscan Center for Urban ...

Margo Morin is a Pastoral Associate and Spiritual Director serving at a large senior living community in Massachusetts. She has over 30 years of ...

Today’s gospel reading for the Feast of the Ascension comes from the last five verses of Matthew’s Gospel—a resurrection narrative in which the eleven remaining disciples climb a mountain and ...

In May 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV greeted the world with the words of the resurrected Jesus: “Peace be with you all!” Addressing “all people, wherever they may be,” Leo spoke of the peace of ...

The “traditional American family” can feel almost timeless: a married mother and father raising their children in a single-family home, with Dad earning the paycheck and Mom devoting herself to the ...

Meredith Anne Miller is an author and the co-pastor of Pomona Valley Church, an online and dinner church based in SOuthern California. If you make a reference to a story from Judeo-Christian scripture ...

Who knew that a Gen-Z hippie appreciating the Latin Mass would be so controversial? I am the creator of the HippieCatholic, an online ministry that creates community for progressive Catholics, ...

After September 11, 2001 and the subsequent war on terrorism, the American flag became more visible than at perhaps any other time in U.S. history. From car antennas to window decals to lapel buttons ...