One of the most contentious points in Catholic American church is music. Should we sing Gregorian chant or Taize chant? Is modern music the best or should we sing the tried and true older [...]

We’re lined up at the back of church. The high school student who is thurifer holds the incense thurible billowing smoke. To his side a little boy holds the “boat” containing the incense. Behind [...]

All it takes is a few years of dry weather before we realize how dependent all of us are on fresh water for life. When California was hit by drought conditions the whole nation [...]

When is New Year’s Day? Everybody assumes it is January first, but for centuries Catholics observed March 25 as the start of the new year. March 25 is the beginning of Spring, but in [...]

“When I was a little girl…” the older Catholic woman said to me, “…and I had any sort of complaint or problem, my Irish mother would listen sympathetically and then say in her brisk, [...]

When teaching my personal development course called ‘Ordinary Hero’ I show the students a picture of an ancient tree and explain how our lives have three levels: the branches and leaves represent our everyday [...]