Strange New Worlds
What does Catholic teaching tell us about extraterrestrial life? This might not seem like the most pressing of theological questions, but here I must admit to being a complete and unabashed science-fiction nerd. So...
Author: Josh McDonald
All Popsicles Matter
At the store where I work we put up a sign at the beginning of the month, letting customers know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. It’s been up now for a few...
Bridge Building
Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity by James Martin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Father Martin offers up...
The Dream the Dreamers Dreamed
As the events of Charlottesville have deeply affected the national psyche — and, truthfully, even before this — as unabashed and emboldened racism has reared its head and proclaimed itself in the wake of...
A Revolution of the Heart
This year for our Holy Week Tenebrae service, I was invited to present a reflection. Here is a transcript of my brief talk, reflecting on the text of Mark 15: verses 1 – 15...
Holy Innocents
December 28th, the fourth day of Christmas, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This day has its origins in Matthew’s gospel account of the birth of Jesus and Herod’s reaction to...
The Quality of Mercy
Pope Francis has declared this liturgical year, from December 2015 through November 2016, a Jubilee Year of Mercy. And while Catholics worldwide are invited to contemplate and celebrate the Divine mercy we have received...
Poverty in Vermont
Another great piece from Vermont Edition on VPR; Thursday, November 19, 2015. Creating Pathways from Poverty.
Hunger in Vermont
There was a great segment on VPR’s Vermont Edition yesterday, November 18, about hunger in our state and what is being done to address it. Listen here: http://digital.vpr.net/post/checking-hunger-state
Aims & Purposes of the Catholic Worker
In the words of Dorothy Day, originally published in February, 1940. For the sake of new readers, for the sake of men on our breadlines, for the sake of the employed and unemployed, the...
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