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December 2021

December 09, 2021

Dark Devotional: Holding the Door for Jesus

Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The Lord, your God, is in your...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mind Your Own Distractions

If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Dark Devotional: He Who Comes to Me Will Never Be Hungry

It was 8.30am on Ash Wednesday, 10 February 2016, when I noticed an email from...

June 2021

June 04, 2021

Dark Devotional: Body Drawn and Quartered

When I was a child, we attended Mass at a Dominican convent the next town...

June 25, 2019

Dark Devotional: The Intimacy of Communion

As Catholics, we take it for granted that the One, the Be All, End...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Dark Devotional: Sunday in the Chapel of Split Ends and Hangnails

Body Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely...

August 2018

August 16, 2018

Dark Devotional: The Case of the True Presence, and the Hoarding of the Manna- A Eucharistic Tale

I found myself inside an Episcopal church one Sunday morning last fall, partly an...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

An Offering in Betrayal – A Holy Week Meditation

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack,...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

My Daily Bread-lessness: A Celiac Sufferer’s Prayerbook

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

That Old Catholic Magic: Jacob Popcak Explains St. Patrick’s Day to Sick Pilgrim

We invited some Sick Pilgrims over to talk about one of our favorite saints, St...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Mary Karr: Trying to Say God

This post begins our series of features on the writers, musicians and artists who will...

December 2016

December 22, 2016

Dark Devotional: It’s Christmas, Let’s Get Drunk!

One of my earliest childhood memories is my dad getting tipsy from the communion wine...

December 14, 2016

Adventures of an Agnostic in the Weird World of Catholicism

When my roommates first told me that they were going to get time off...

November 2016

November 25, 2016

The Broken Body of Christ at the Border

Last month, I attended Mass at the border; I was part of a community of...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

We are Blood Thirsty: Twilight, Fifty Shades, and Leviticus

Editor's Note:This post discusses ritualistic cutting and self-injury in the context of a theology...

October 24, 2016

Blessed, Bewildered: A Former Altar Boy Remembers Benediction

Of all the mysterious rites of Catholicism, perhaps the most mysterious is the Benediction of...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Try and Make it to the River: A Conversation with Michael Delp about Fulton Sheen and the Eucharist

When men see Han-shan They all say he's crazy And not much to look at...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

I went to Communion and You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next!

I saw that it is the will of Christ’s love to be put into the hands...

April 2016

April 07, 2016

Dark Devotional: Broken and Multiplied

My husband and I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for three years in graduate school. We...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

Dark Devotional: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Confessions of a Bible Hater

Click here for the complete Mass Readings for Sunday, January 24, 2016. A reading from...

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