Perspective: What if we included the nonhuman in the boundaries of the neighbor whom we are charged to love? What if we prayed the Lord's Prayer with all creatures, who have their own relationships with God?
This vandalism of Amazonian statues represented the many ways colonial violence has an ongoing and deep hold on Catholicism even today, especially in the U.S.
The Peace Pulpit: Avoid greed in all its forms. Do not pile up material possessions thinking that you can always guard against whatever might happen. Try to remember that everything we have is a gift.
The Peace Pulpit: It must have been an extraordinary experience to see Jesus in prayer. That's why the disciples said, "Teach us how to pray. We need to be able to find God within us as you do."
The Holy Spirit gives Christians the courage and the strength needed to engage in a loving dialogue with God that is like the dialogue of a child with his or her father, Pope Francis said.
Christians recognize life's great paradox that so much evil and temptation exist in the world, but that God is always present, too, ready to help and give people the strength to persevere, Pope Francis said.
Daily Lenten Reflections: Memories are treasures in our later years. We often sit and sort through them, like the nursery-rhyme King of Hearts in his counting house. Some of them bring a tear or two to our eyes as we reach back for something or someone who is now beyond our grasp.
