Through Another Lens

Life asks us to say yes through the pain. Jesus asks us to follow where we do not want to go.

A god to be feared but not loved would be a god who dealt in negatives, but we know that there are no negatives in God, that Creation came into being with the “yes” of his intention, and it is sustained to this very second by that continued affirmation.

The Acts of the Apostles and the “Amazing Race” challenge me to consider where I’ve been, and what we Catholics have been doing together. The Christian life is an amazing race filled with amazing grace, and we are all entered to run it.

“Summer invites us to do the slow, holy work of being human. Take your time,” says Christina Capecchi..

The modern tradition of Catholic social teaching (CST) — the toolbox of principles the church calls us to draw upon to build the just social order — was instigated by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903). We now have a new pope, Leo XIV, who is reminding us of this corpus of teaching as a resource as the world is torn by war and faces the challenge of a new digital industrial revolution.

How striking it was to hear the first words of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. They surprised, in no small part of course, because the world had never heard before from a pontiff born in the United States. But even more significantly, the first words he spoke as pope were not his own.

Minnesota Catholic Conference and its partner organization, the Catholic Health Association-Minnesota, have long advocated for allowing the state’s undocumented immigrant community, particularly children, to access health insurance through MinnesotaCare. 

Donald DeMarco explores motherhood, and its depth, through a theological perspective borrowing the “I-thou” terminology of Martin Buber. He writes “But there is something far more profound that occurs in the mother-child relationship.”