Scripture for Life: The church's prayer this week leads us through a long and difficult process of watching Jesus be stripped of human power so that we can learn something about what divine power is.
Commentary: The nonviolent strategies being used by Ukrainians in many locations are vitally important and illustrate powerful and effective ways to defend their communities and to break the cycles of violence.
Concerns remain about how to conduct communal consumption of the Precious Blood amid a highly contagious virus, and cultivators of sacramental wine worry about what those decisions will mean for future business.
We say: The church must do more to proclaim its message of racial justice, in homilies and in statements from bishops. The church also must do more to prioritize racism among other social justice issues.
