Scripture for Life: The feast of the Ascension commissions Christ's followers through all ages, reminding us that Christ's mission continues through us and that the grace to accomplish it remains ever available to us.
Scripture for Life: We've heard the call to love one another, perhaps too frequently. But Christ's love is what the readings of the Sixth Sunday of Easter call forth from us and this call is likely to make us uncomfortable.
Scripture for Life: The Sundays of Easter celebrate the resurrection and the union with God that Christ always offers — with or without our knowing it.
Everyone who met Bishop Gumbleton left with an understanding that the world was his congregation and you were simply lucky to have found your way to the center of it.
Sr. Christine Schenk wanted to pay her respects to Bishop Thomas Gumbleton. She found a personal and heartfelt memorial service at the motherhouse of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters in Monroe, Michigan.
Scripture for Life: Today's readings invite us to stand alongside Peter and search our hearts until we can explain why it is that we do what we do and what kind of power we are exercising.
I encountered God in the movie theater watching "Manjummel Boys." The true story behind it illustrates Jesus' words: "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."
Scripture for Life: The invitation to believe in the Resurrection asks for a leap of faith that starts with our heart, our hands and our feet, not our intellect.
Scripture for Life: To be an Easter people means to do the work of Easter: to work against injustices, to shake up the status quo, to welcome the marginalized and to embrace all creation with healing love.
Sr. Helen Prejean accompanied Ivan Cantu through his Feb. 28 execution. Her act "mirrors that of the many courageous women who stayed with another man executed for a capital crime," writes Christin Schenk.
Scripture for Life: If we believe that God works through us, instead of asking "Why does God let it happen?," the prophetic question is, "How can people who believe in God and the power of love let it happen?"
Scripture for Life: Contemplating Jesus' fury in the temple calls us to take account of ourselves. What religion do we proclaim in our worship and our daily actions?
Scripture for Life: In an interesting combination of Scripture passages, the story of Abraham's test prepares us for contemplating Jesus' transfiguration.
Scripture for Life: As we begin Lent, rather than choose something to give up, a more radical approach could be to commit to taking the leisure that allows us to dream beyond our current horizons.
Scripture for Life: Be imitators of Christ. Imitate the one who responded first to the marginalized, to society's outcasts, to the ones who feel they can never measure up.
The synthesis report from the first session of the synod on synodality calls for significant structural changes that could have profound implications for how governance and ministry function in the church. Christine Schenk offers an analysis.
Receiving the prestigious People's Choice SDGs Award for our regenerative agriculture project was an exceptional experience of communion for us, not only in Kenya, but the entire St. Joseph of Tarbes family.
Scripture for Life: The reign of God describes a web of relationships that continually grows, drawing more and more people into unity with God and neighbor — and with all of creation.
