The liturgical year has its seasons: Advent, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time. In 2019 Pope Francis joined the Orthodox community in recommending an addition to the calendar: a Season of Creation from September 1 through the feast of Saint Francis on October 4. It's a perfect time to reread Laudato Si’ and consider what more our parishes might do for the Earth.

Where have you felt God has liberated and healed you?

What does it mean to say, “Jesus saves"? Christianity is often reduced to this two-word sound bite, so we ought to consider what we intend by this statement. Ask a random handful of believers, and my fear is that the interpretation will be rendered: Jesus saves us from hell.

In need of money for living expenses during my third year of theology at the seminary, and too proud to ask my recently retired father for help (especially since he often reminded me that he would not see me as a man until I was able to support myself), another classmate and I found work on the night shift on a truck dock of a large delivery company.

In a scene in the lighthearted romance Just Like Heaven, with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, the lead character, Elizabeth, a doctor, must coach landscape architect David through a risky procedure to save the life of a restaurant patron who has collapsed and stopped breathing.

In prayer we call upon God to strengthen us in our following of the way of Jesus.

I address a strong appeal that the dignity and safety of the workers always be protected.