Catherine Hervey writes of her encounter with a Ugandan family: "They were offering belonging, a rootedness in this new place I hadn’t imagined possible."

As Duncan Hilton and his fiancee move to a rural family farm in Vermont, he considers how to maintain a practice of racial justice.

The bees taught me a new way to be in time. I knew how to march in time, but the honeybees showed me how to dance to the rhythms of nature in the city.

"As a person socialized as white in a racist culture, O’Connor does not intuitively grasp the psychic damage done by slavery ... and this lack of understanding and experience shows up in the stories as well as in the letters."

In a revision of their book, "Leading Lives that Matter," Dorothy Bass and Mark Schwehn provide new perspectives as they ask: What should we do and who should we be?

In this interview, Pastor James Alberts II speaks about George Floyd's murder by police in Minneapolis and calls people to do the work of racial justice.

In our June edition of Book Notes, we highlight recently published books written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.

In our April edition of Book Notes, we highlight recently published books written by authors affiliated with the Collegeville Institute.

Our apologetics lesson didn’t teach us to listen to those who were different from us. The need for total ideological purity ends the possibility of love.

I walked fast, but didn’t miss it, not all of it, / as the meditation teacher told us / we might in our perpetual hurry.

Angela Alaimo O'Donnell's poem contemplates: "Light / sung loud as loons, the Abbey bells rung bright / as Christ’s gold leaf icon shining in its niche."

But the worst, the most insidious, / The lava that's cooled / Into porous, igneous rock, / Choking all four chambers.