February is Black History Month. This year’s theme, identified by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the various and profound ways that work of all kinds—free and unfree, skilled and unskilled, vocational and voluntary—intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Black people’s work has been ...
Though Catholic and Christiam institutions have gone through periods where contemplative prayer has not been emphasized, contemplation nevertheless forms part of the bedrock of a traditional Catholic understanding of prayer. Consider this excerpt from...
One of the central tenets of Christian spirituality (and indeed much non-Christian spirituality, too) is the necessity of dying to self -- that is, the false self that culture, our own egos, and other people claim us to ...
The value of work involving care for small children, the sick, disabled and elderly is an important component of Catholic Social Teaching which emphasizes human dignity, fostering solidarity with the vulnerable, and the common good. The demographics of longer lives and smaller families mean more...
The New Testament makes roughly 40 references to Jesus praying. Have you ever wondered what the prayer time of Jesus looked like, or considered in what this prayer consisted? Some of these prayers of Jesus were...
As the new year unfolds, let’s turn our attention and prayer toward a more peaceful and equitable world. Catholic Relief Services sent out this beautiful and thoughtful prayer for peace.
Father of Jesus,
You who sent your angels to ...
Any true mission or vocation must arise from and be anchored in a keen awareness of who we are. Understanding our own belovedness and the particular ways in which we are graced by God ensures that we are undertaking the right mission for the right reasons, and sustains us through the inevitable sacrifices. Moreover, a...
Did you know that climate change is threatening children’s education around the world? Globally, extreme weather events are closing schools for days and sometimes weeks. While the greatest impact is felt in Asia and Africa, a recent estimate suggests that closures due to heat are increasing quickly in the United States as well. UNICEF studies reveal that children today are experiencing twice as...