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Somewhere, women were laughing. The sound carried me back to my childhood, when I'd lie in my bed comforted by the voices of my older sisters talking in their bedroom down the hall. Now, decades later, groggy and in pain after an emergency surgery, I was

Listen on: Apple Spotify In 2025, Congress passed HR 1, referred to by the Trump administration as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but also known as the Big Bad Budget Bill. It slashed funding for human needs programs including Medicaid and SNAP and gave

My son Quentin died by suicide on April 26, 2020. Every Catholic parish has people like me who bear the sorrow of suicide loss, as well as those whose loved ones have attempted suicide. They also have people who wrestle with suicidal ideation and others w

Readings (Year A): Isaiah 5:1-7Psalm 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20Philippians 4:6-9Matthew 21:33-43 Reflection: We are co-workers in God's vineyard Oh boy, this feels like another one of those moments where we're in trouble. God seems to be complaining, i

Jesus got angry from time to time. All four of the gospels testify to this. This should be no surprise. The Councils of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431), and Chalcedon (451) built upon each other and declared that Jesus was both fully div

The rain stopped for no one in Chicagoland this summer, Pope Leo XIV included. On August 11, rolling walls of dark clouds loomed from all directions under an algae-green sky. The local NBC 5 weather team reported uprooted trees in dozens of communities; t

When we consider the situation of migrant children in the United States, the reality is troubling. More than 6,200 children have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the second term of President Donald Trump's administrati

The common life of culture can only exist within what Pope Leo XIV in Magnifica Humanitas (On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence) calls an "ecology of communication," fostered by an education that is not an "incessant flo

When I look at the calendar on my phone, each day is more color-coded than the dashboard of a 20-year-old clunker of a car. I cannot recall how long I have told myself that the calendar will get better next week. Next week has yet to arrive. Each day I am

Listen on: Apple Spotify This episode of Just Politics focuses on the U.S. housing crisis, why homelessness is often misunderstood, and what effective solutions beyond charity could look like. Sister Eilis McCulloh speaks with Coston fellow Anthony Mirand