On X, I saw a post in which a Jew wrote that Jesus was a charlatan. “Jesus being God on Earth made flesh? Nonsense. God is never supposed to be limited. Let alone die,” he wrote. I was quite taken aback! Of...
Reading through the Gospel of Mark for Lent, a priest led me to enter more deeply into the scene in which Jesus calls Levi (Mark 2:13-17). The priest encouraged his listeners to not only think from the perspective of being one of the sinners Jesus dined...
One Saturday morning, I came upon a collage of pictures of smiling men in striped jump suits in my social media feed. There was such joy in the pictures! My heart was...
There were a lot of babies and children at Mass. Their sounds filled the air. There was crying, laughing, burbling, shouting, loud whispering and the pitter-patter of little feet running to the bathroom or escaping the pew and running from their...
My one temptation to Protestantism is their lack of the sacrament of Confession (also called Penance). I am only tempted thusly when I am particularly ashamed by something I have to...
