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I don’t know if anyone has ever done a study of such a pedestrian topic, but it is a question that will become increasingly relevant.

Everyone from bishops to influential lay leaders to people in the pews now have a microphone (or megaphone, depending on their number of followers) to use. More often than not, they are rewarded with increased visibility when they post something divisive or reactionary.

Gardener finds solace among primroses, statue of St. Francis in garden created in husband’s memory.

Our attention is a holy gift. Where do we let it land?

The most likely place to find uplifting messages about the human spirit these days is in superhero movies.

Sometimes I am astonished by the pace of life: how quickly we can make online purchases, how readily we can outsource, how fully we can avoid human contact.

Jean Vanier, who founded L’Arche communities for the physically and intellectually challenged, once said, “If you are blind to the poor, you are blind to God.”

It is dismaying that the California Senate has so little concern for the sacrament of reconciliation. But in that regard it is not unlike most Catholics.