Having born, nurtured, and lost our children, mothers know from experience about hope and fear. We have contemplated the big questions of being...

Prayer to Help Us Love Loving God, You made the earth and filled it with ...

The Seeds of Justice Network has issued a thoughtful reflection on tensions between Pope Leo and the Trump administration which have sparked an important question for people of faith: What do we do when politics...

Any “good Christian” will have been taught about their unity with God, how they are sons and daughters, princesses and princes in the family of the great King. Until one has experienced that unity, however, such talk sounds like...

St. Peter makes a pretty audacious claim in this Sunday's second reading: "[Suffering} is grace before God" (1 Pt 2:20). Because we know God is all-loving, we can reach a logical conclusion that all life experiences are grace before...

Information from Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice informs us that rescission of protection for “sensitive locations” in immigration enforcement (January, 2025) has led to fear among many people that they cannot safely go to ...

Did you know that in the U.S., chemical companies are not required to prove...

A science teacher and mentor once shared with me an anecdote about a time when she was leading her young students in an experiment. As the teacher, she thought she understood what the experiment was supposed to...

The late Pope Francis once said of the mercy of God, “It is not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy, because it is an abyss beyond our comprehension. But we must! ... ‘Oh, I am a great sinner!’ All the better! Go to Jesus:” Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices are ways of descending into...

I recently attended a unique Way of the Cross at Saint Margaret of Scotland CatholicChurch. It is called, “Search Me, a Way of the Cross in...

God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters-What will be our answer, my dear friends” Pope Leo XIV Our nations first Earth Day was founded on ...

For your prayer practice, and for your joy this Easter, we offer you the painting “Justification” by artist Jim Ballman:...

Construction of data centers has been in our local news lately, as communities struggle with the wisdom of allowing them within their boundaries. Information from the Southern Environmental Law Center reveals...

Christ’s Passion Sure we’re trained to his suffering, sure the nine-inch nails, and so forth. And the cross raised up...

At the end of January, the Cardinal Archbishops of Chicago, Washington, DC, and Newark issued a joint statement on the morality of U.S. foreign policy, measuring it against the principles set forth by Pope Leo XIV in his address to the diplomatic corps assigned to the Holy See. They asserted that...

Guidance for Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices includes letting go of expectations for our prayer. Typically, this ...

It’s very difficult to recognize sin, prejudices, or hatred once it has been normalized, once we’ve grown cozy with it. Perhaps this is why the Bible speaks so much about blindness: if we’re honest, every one of us is loaded with blind spots, inherited from...

As we continue to travel on the Lenten journey toward Easter, let us pray this powerful prayer for environmental justice provided by Network, an organization that lobbies for Catholic social justice: “God of humanity, open our eyes to the rightful priority of ...

The Seeds of Justice Network has shared this inspiring invitation for Lent from Pope Leo XIV. “I would like to invite you to a very practical and frequently unappreciated form of abstinence: that of refraining from words that ...

Former MMOC Contemplative Core teammate Saralou Hendrickson offered this insight in 2021 – we share it again this week in memory of her: “Martha, Martha, you are anxious about many things. One thing is...