This is the season when children’s Christmas plays warm our souls. Little angels wearing tinsel halos and wings announce “Peace on earth” — possibly with a lisp. Tykes bearing makeshift shepherd staffs (sometimes fashioned from […]
NEW YORK—Last year, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — filmmaker Morgan Neville’s documentary about iconic public television children’s show host Fred Rogers (1928-2003) — achieved both critical acclaim and remarkable success at the box office. […]
SAN DIEGO—When it debuted in late 2018, “Buttons: A Christmas Tale” boasted an impressive number of famous names and familiar faces, but it was only shown in select theaters on Dec. 8 of that year. […]
Signage at the entry to a school near our Lowcountry convent urges students and their families to “Thank Life” at this time of year. It should not have startled me. After all, Thanksgiving Day is […]
The past six weeks’ schedule of celebration upon celebration has been crowded. My own religious community hosted a celebration of our 100th anniversary at what has become our permanent motherhouse in Pennsylvania in mid-September. The […]
Back in the 1970s the African American Catholic Bishops of the U.S. wrote a pastoral letter entitled “Brothers and Sisters to Us.” It took a pointed look at the history of race relations from the […]
On a Saturday in mid-September, my religious community gathered at our motherhouse in Pennsylvania to celebrate the first profession of vows of one of our sisters. The “newbie,” as some might call her, has joined us […]
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