Spring Cleaning and Sacred Relics: What St. Joseph’s Cloak Taught Me About Our Faith
Each year in the spring, I go back to my Midwestern roots and shake off the dust of winter with a good “spring cleaning.” More…
read moreEach year in the spring, I go back to my Midwestern roots and shake off the dust of winter with a good “spring cleaning.” More…
read moreThe smell of fresh basil and tomato vines still brings me back to my grandmother’s garden, where I learned my first lessons about faith. It…
read moreHere at Busted Halo our motto is “faith shared joyfully,” and the announcement of Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV has been one of…
read moreAs a practicing Catholic married to a lapsed Catholic, lots of well-meaning Catholic friends say, “I’ll pray for your husband’s conversion!” Of course I appreciate…
read moreHere at Busted Halo our motto is “faith shared joyfully,” and the announcement of Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV has been one of…
read moreHabemus Papam! — We have a pope! — and an American one at that!! Yesterday, May 8, the Church celebrated the elevation of Cardinal Robert…
read moreMy 6-year-old daughter and I recently started reading chapter books together. The experience of a narrative slowly unfolding mesmerizes her. The story, “Wildsmith,” by Liz…
read moreAs April unfurls its tender green leaves and May adorns our world with blossoms, I find myself drawn to my garden like a pilgrim to…
read moreI am deeply saddened by the passing of Pope Francis, but I am even more grateful for his life and his witness. There have been…
read more“Let us labor for an inward stillness, an inward stillness which is the very heaven, where dwells the divine and the infinite.” — Vincent Ferrer,…
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