Pray for Me
María Ruiz Scaperlanda
August 12, 2026
In intercessory prayer, I speak to God on behalf of another and their petition, be it a person, situation, or a community.
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Let Your Light Lead
Daniel Imwalle
August 12, 2026
Have you ever gotten lost? I mean completely and utterly disoriented and directionless
Admitting Gross Historical Injustices
Pat McCloskey, OFM
August 12, 2026
Call it tribalism, but I’ve always cast a skeptical eye on the Dominicans ever since I learned about their role in the Inquisition. Do you have any advice for thinking about historical misdeeds?
‘I Am the Vine, You Are the Branches’
Leonard Foley, OFM
August 11, 2026
Clare’s name means “light.” She is the bright, shining one who reflected God’s love into the world.
Mighty St. Clare
Christopher Heffron
August 11, 2026
St. Francis changed the world with his Gospel-infused spirituality, but he was also free to be an itinerant. His sister in faith, Clare, was just as effective in evangelizing without ever leaving San Damiano.
Is Social Justice Marxism?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
August 11, 2026
Q: I am a big supporter of Glenn Beck and all the work he is doing to save the country. On one of his programs, he was discussing social justice, which is Marxism, and how the government is trying to absorb the churches to run them as everything else—as the Communists do. He said there is a part of our Church that is tied into Marxism. What is it and how can we stop it?
The Touch of God
Jim Van Vurst, OFM
August 10, 2026
It is not a matter of “carrying God inside us.” That would be too mechanical. It’s better to say that we are filled with God’s presence within us—along with our weaknesses and imperfections.
God in Retrospect
Mark Forrester
August 10, 2026
While few humans are blessed with receiving a beatific vision—or seeing God directly—most of us, like Moses, see God’s back after God has come and gone. In other words, we see (or experience) God in hindsight, through holy aha moments.
When Did Jesus become a Catholic?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
August 10, 2026
Q: A few years ago, I overheard a Catholic woman ask her friend, “When did Jesus become a Catholic?” A few of us laughed but did try to explain that Jesus was the Christ. He was born Jewish and died Jewish.
One of my Jewish friends asked me, “When did Jesus become a Christian?” Soon after that, a relative asked me, “Well, when did he become a Catholic?” Please address these questions in your column.
Sister Saints: Clare of Assisi’s Letters to Agnes of Prague
Joanne Schatzlein, OSF
August 9, 2026
The focus of this special feast day episode is St. Clare of Assisi’s remarkable, poetic letters to another woman of nobility, St. Agnes of Prague. Guiding listeners through these four letters is Sister Joanne Schatzlein, OSF, a Franciscan scholar, co-author of a major study on Clare of Assisi, and lifelong student of her spirituality. Sister Joanne is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, whose Motherhouse is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and entered her Congregation in 1965. In this episode, Sister Joanne echoes to us Clare’s invitation to Agnes: to gaze, consider, contemplate, and imitate in our lives what Christ has taught us.