Alice Camille

Alice Camille is a religious educator and author of Listening to God's Word and Invitation to Catholicism. She has won awards from the Catholic Press Association, the Associated Church Press and the interfaith Religion Communicators Council. Camille received her Master of Divinity degree from the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. She is the regular "Testaments" columnist for U.S. Catholic. For more on her work, go to her website.

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Sierra Blanca Peak on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation (Wikimedia Commons/Jonathan Cutrer)

Encountering Miss Mescalero

Soul Seeing: Throwaway culture means discarding our fellow humans through decisions small and paramount. But we can resist by seeing the whole person in every encounter we are given.

Two people seated outside, watching a sunset (Unsplash/Harli Marten)

The fate of the world rests on this

Soul Seeing: I need to respond to others as if they were family. I need to shoulder responsibility for the world's pain as if it had something to do with me, which it does.

Ivory plaque of the prophet Joel, seventh century (Wikimedia Commons/Marie-Lan Nguyen)

My 90-year-old mother falls, caught in the eye of apocalypse

Soul Seeing: My mother reads the prophet Joel after dark. She's had a bad fall and worse scare. Joel suddenly makes sense. Her kingdom is collapsing; her children at the gates.

It ain't your baby

I was blind, then I saw

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