Nativity

Hear the bells break the silence Shatter it to the bone Hear the old world dying Withering like the fig … More

Christ in a Waiting Room: An Early Spring Spiritual Epiphany

The painting showed the body of Christ being taken down by the cross, about to be placed in the arms of the sorrowing mother, and all at once I imagined the tears trickling down her face and the blood trickling from his heart, and it felt that everything around me dissolved in that one moment.

Good People and Paradise: Is There Salvation Outside the Church?

In order to get to heaven, is it only necessary that we be a “good person”? This is a question … More

Building a Bridge and Drawing a Line: A Way Forward for Traditional Religious and LGBT Communities

Is there any hope of a bridge being build between traditional religious communities on the one hand and the LGBT community on the other? I don’t believe there’s an easy answer to that question posed in Fr. James Martin’s controversial book entitled Building a Bridge.

Mary and Fatima: Reflections on the Sacred Feminine in Christianity and Islam

Both Mary and Fatima are seen, in their respective traditions, as “queens of paradise.” And what is a queen of paradise? Perhaps it has less to do with crowns and scepters, and more to do with a certain fullness of being, a height of proximity to the divine light.