Tag: Effie Caldarola

Today, I spent time with the Gerasene demoniac. At least I did so in my imagination. I journeyed there in prayer and then stood with...

If you look at the view from the window of the Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas, you realize that from that distance...

My friend Sister Mary Hogan told me that what she remembers most vividly about her experience in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 was the "hate...

My 2-year-old granddaughter Alice and I are putting together a gingerbread house. To keep her occupied while her older sister creates a house from...

Mom was recuperating, years ago, in front of the television set in her hospital room following surgery. As she grew older, surgery was hard on...

"All the leaves are brown. And the sky is gray." As we lean into another Advent, that opening line of "California Dreamin'" plays in my...

So, after two years, I finally succumbed to COVID-19. When I woke up feeling like a cold was coming, I wasn't surprised. I'd been exposed...

My great-grandfather, a refugee from the devastating famine in Ireland, came to Nebraska to farm. Generations later, I grew up on that farm. I have...

When you think about the Vatican, great filmmaking isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But a documentary released by the Vatican on the...

Words, and how we use them, have great power. During Senate hearings regarding the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice...