Your Field Guide to Flying Saints
Kathleen M. Carroll
October 20, 2021
There are some saints who were so immersed in prayer that their feet literally left the ground. While amazing, this is by no means unique.
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Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll is a freelance writer and editor in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a BA in English literature from the University of Cincinnati.
Christmas Light in Winter’s Darkness
Kathleen M. Carroll
December 14, 2020
What better moment to reflect on both the brevity and great expanse of time than at the close of one year and the beginning of the next?
St. Francis and the Feast of Pardon
Kathleen M. Carroll
May 9, 2020
The Feast of Pardon, as it is called in Italy, always attracts thousands of visitors and pilgrims to Assisi.
The Sin of Racism
Kathleen M. Carroll
October 23, 2017
The US Department of Justice reports that one in three Black American men can expect to go to prison in his lifetime.
Greater Love
Kathleen M. Carroll
August 24, 2017
In May, a Portland, Oregon, train was the site of a violent attack, which killed two men and critically injured a third, all of whom were defending two teenage girls from a hate-filled verbal assault. The incident offered a poignant answer to a timely question: What is an American?
In the turbid stew of political discourse that pollutes our airwaves, our conversations, and even our thoughts, this question simmers below the surface.
A Canticle to Creation
Kathleen M. Carroll
June 22, 2017
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of the Vatican Observatory since 2015, finds it altogether baffling that some people still see science and religion as being somehow opposed.