First of all, let me address the elephant in the room: This is a Testaments column, but I am not Alice Camille. I know that, for many of our subscribers and...
Author - Emily Sanna
Mother, Creature, Kin By Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder (Broadleaf Books, 2025) “How’s Mom doing?” When I was pregnant, every nurse or doctor seemed to ask this...
If God Were a Great Big Bear By Paul Harbridge, Illustrated by Marta Dorado (Beaming Books, 2025) “God is in me? And you? And the kitten?” My 3-year-old found...
I often think that Catholics have a parenting problem. Sure, we’re very good at idealizing parenthood: the beauty of family life, the miracle of new life, the...
This year, reading the gospels during Holy Week, I can’t help but put myself in Mary’s shoes. What must it have been like to see Jesus at the cross, her little...
Flow Directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio, 2024) There were parts of Flow that made me cuddle my 3-month-old black kitten a little tighter. The main...
This month is the Feast of Epiphany, when we celebrate the coming of the magi to the Christ child and recognize that Jesus came for all—Gentiles and Jews, even...
Readings (Year C): Micah 5:1 – 4aPsalms 80:2 – 3, 15 – 16, 18 – 19.Hebrews 10:5 – 10Luke 1:39 – 45 Reflection: Far from...
At first I started looking at the bush because I was bored and a little frustrated. I was on a walk in the woods with my husband and toddler, and I found...
