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When three members of St. Ann Parish in East Baltimore sat down with leaders of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican in late October to advocate for sainthood for six Black potential saints from the United States, they shared their personal experiences of being Black and Catholic.
The threat from nuclear weapons is as great now as ever, and their destructive power is more immediate than climate change, said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, at a Nov. 29 Mass in Manhattan that remembered Catholic activist Dorothy Day, a candidate for sainthood recognized by the church as a “servant of God.”
In every golden moment grace hides in plainest sight for those with presence of mind and a will to penetrate.
God is embedded in the pain and joy of the world.
God is present everywhere, luring us toward wholeness. All things are touched by God.
God invites us to share in his sacrificial love, transforming self-interest into selflessness.
Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure inspire us to adventurous spirituality
Francis and Clare realized that to be faithful to Jesus, they needed to incarnate Jesus’s message in their time and place.
The message of Franciscan spirituality can awaken a vision of hope amid the challenges we face.
The wisdom and traditions of the past must be integrated with God’s movement toward the fresh horizons of the future.
