The Meaning of Encounter

As part of The Art of Encounter: Catholic Writers from the Margins Conference on October 21st,…

Lessons from “Over the Garden Wall”

Last autumn, my friends hosted a kind of movie night featuring a favorite show of theirs.…

Franz Joseph Haydn: Devout Catholic

Franz Joseph Haydn is perhaps one of the most unjustly maligned composers of all time, despite…

Where is Faith When I Doubt?

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb.…

Silence in Boston

If you are ever absurd enough to wake up early on a weekend and wander around…

Mary the Undoer of Knots, Even the Small Ones

Growing up, there has always been, sitting on the top of my fireplace back home, a…

COOKIE CUTTER 

Have you ever had the sensation that everything in your life is too neat or too…

Not Your Average Joseph

Of late, I have been moseying my way through the first of the synoptic gospels. In…

Θαρσεῖτε, Ἐγώ Eἰμι

The summer that has just now passed was, for me, divided fairly distinctly into two sections.…

Coffee-Flavored Devotion

In the early parts of the semester, Boston College Campus Ministry takes center stage in a…