Readings (Year A): Sirach 3:2 – 6, 12 – 14Psalm 128:1 – 2, 3, 4 – 5Colossians 3:12 – 21 or 3:12 – 17Matthew 2:13 –...
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Nine Puzzles Directed by Yoon Jong-bin (Moonlight Film, 2025) Detective stories can be cliché. Often the humanity of the characters gets lost in the grisly...
One of my favorite Christmas songs goes: “Oh tell me when was Jesus born?” But the gospels offer no date for Jesus’ birthday. Some people say we only celebrate...
I like snakes, which is a good thing, since I’ve encountered a lot of them, often in unexpected places. Most memorable was the black rat snake that got into...
“It just doesn’t feel like a holiday without pasta,” my mother-in-law told us as she set a steaming bowl of tortellini onto the table in preparation for...
Maybe you haven’t noticed him. Essentially a means to someone else’s ends, Mr. Potter’s anonymous manservant in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has a...
Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Catholics are accustomed to thinking of the term apostle as referring exclusively to men: the Twelve who...
A quick survey of headlines offers any number of reasons not to be cheerful this Christmas: A president and a White House deputy who appear to not like America...
Chapters 37 and 38 in Genesis offer us back-to-back stories of people deceiving others but with an unexpected twist: One deceiver is praised and the other is...
