The historic Catholic minor basilica attracts thousands of pilgrims annually — the majority of them Hindu and Muslim — seeking what they call the power of the divine feminine from the Virgin Mary.
Scripture for Life - In this popular New Testament story, the apostles and the crowds experienced a parable in action — a happening whose importance could not be exaggerated.
While a deficit of women's writings and a mostly cloistered lifestyle leaves the female experience of Augustinian spirituality something of an enigma, four saints model a spirit of devotion, courage and mysticism.
Soul Seeing - As we struggle both individually and collectively as a church to figure out synodality, might Henry David Thoreau be another voice we need to heed?
We're inundated with stories of meanness, but there's a huge reservoir of hope available to us. We just have to keep our eyes open for people doing good in small, everyday-but-still-important ways.
