our every encounter leads someone toward beatitude or away from it

This film explores the experiences of shame and redemption in a very unique way which I found compelling.

In January of 2001, I had the privilege of interviewing William Saunders for an article about the persecuted Church in the Sudan. Just three months earlier, Pope John Paul II had canonized the first Sudanese saint, Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita, and so Saunders told me a bit about her in the context of helping me […]

One of the great feast days of the month of January is the Conversion of Saint Paul, celebrated each year on January 25th. But what is conversion?

This afternoon
as flakes of powder
buried the Nativity scene
in the front yard
I shoveled
a deep canyon, white
to the road.