An open letter to Chicago’s archbishop-elect Blase Cupich
Dear Archbishop-elect Cupich: Eat at Burger King. By yourself. In street clothes. If you want to get to know Chicago and those of us who live here, go to the [...]
Advice for new graduates: Believe. Jump. Leap. Trust.
If you’re one of the millions of young people who are graduating from high school or college this season, I have one word of advice for you: Believe. Believe in [...]
“Tell ’em about the dream, Martin!”
It was a moment of high drama. And Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to find his rhythm. He stood before the Lincoln Memorial to address some quarter of [...]
A parish, like a family, is made of woven lives
By Patrick T. Reardon The baby crawled along the carpet in an open area in the back of church. She was dressed in a celebration of white and red horizontal [...]
Dangerous Women
Back in the 1990s, I saw a movie, set in a big city, that focused on a small group of people who wore very distinctive uniforms. This group wasn’t carrying [...]
JFK and the cafeteria bishops
A half century ago, John F. Kennedy was elected the first Catholic President of the United States because he convinced American voters that he wouldn't take orders from the Pope. [...]
God’s voice in a scratching sound? an itch?
Published November 25, 2011 in the National Catholic Reporter Friends of mine get angry with the Catholic Church hierarchy, and, Lord knows, there's enough reason for that. To err is [...]
