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October 2018

October 23, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to Salem

The first thing you notice about Salem is that it looks like every old port...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

Reaction Round Up: A Hall of Shame

The past week has been eye opening. Not only is the world more aware than...

August 15, 2018

Dear Catholic Bishops, Time’s Up

Over the past few weeks, we at Sick Pilgrim have watched with unease as the...

August 09, 2018

Dark Devotional: Going it Alone

Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat." He...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Kiki’s Delivery Service

If you happen to visit our house sometime and find yourself invited down to our...

July 12, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Pope Francis

In the romance languages the word sin means lacking or without. As a catholic,...

July 10, 2018

The Mothers at the Border Are Named Jochaved

Like many, I’ve been deeply grieved by the policy of family separation at the border....

July 04, 2018

Miss Fourth of July by Joanna Penn Cooper

I begin with two facts: In 1983, when I was 12, I was named Miss...

July 01, 2018

Sick Pilgrim Goes to the Movies: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

When I have trouble picturing Jesus, I picture Mr. Rogers. The challenge for...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

Little House in the 21st Century

This week, the American Library Association announced that it would be removing Laura Ingalls...

June 22, 2018

Dark Devotional: Prayers for the Faithful

Art by the devout and confiscated Brian Jocks. O God, who raised up Saint...

June 04, 2018

Things Keeping Us Alive – May 2018, Marian Edition

It’s June! The grass is green, the robins are feeding their babies in the nest...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Something About Mary

One of the most treasured items of my 1960’s era Catholic childhood was a...

May 23, 2018

Family Photos, Statues, and Intergenerational Worry

Republished with Permission from the blog Crone Cafe That awkwardly-framed 80s photo is...

May 21, 2018

Mary and the Cosmos

The incarnation is cosmic in its significance. God the Word, the Logos, became man....

May 02, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VIII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Dark Devotional: Love in the Kingdom of Heaven

I don’t care for the Bible terribly well. Probably because it was held up like...

April 26, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VI

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

Approaching Mystery: Maren Grossman on Unexpected Creatures

When I was a child I developed the curious notion that virtue could be measured...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

Write the Vision: Earth’s Delicate Balance

Today in our Write the Vision series, author and farmer Rebecca Bratten Weiss shares her...

January 20, 2018

Approaching Mystery: “Offering” by Carla Myers

My breasts are cold because they are made of cold compressed air, contained by cold,...

October 2017

October 15, 2017

Dark Devotional: Being a Wave

“I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Welcome to Spooky Pilgrim Month: Looking for Places of the Uncanny and Strange

The Nicene Creed tells us that God is the Creator of all things "Seen and...

September 14, 2017

Approaching Mystery: Brian Doyle Attends “The Viewing”

Walked into the chapel at dusk last night, and there she was, in the casket...

September 12, 2017

Songs as Sanctuary: Cameron Dezen Hammon on Springsteen’s Thunder Road

Once not long ago, at my lowest point of faith, of faithlessness really, after my...

August 2017

August 04, 2017

Dark Devotional: Hold Fast and Light Your Lamps

My Friends, I’m tired of living. I don’t mean this is a suicidal...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Dark Devotional: Creating From the Wound

I live in Los Angeles, the epicenter of self-defining artists. And, like most people in...

July 14, 2017

Dark Devotional: Alive With Decay

Seed work is work for the dark. It is growth to be entrusted to soil...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Dark Devotional: Go and Make a Mess of Things

Could it be that our weakness is exactly what the power of the Gospel needs...