Many people suffer the loss of “a sense of place” when a region that is like home to them is exploited or abused in large

Unlike many Catholics who flocked to central Appalachia in the wake of “This Land Is Home to Me,” the 1975 Appalachian bishops’ pastoral letter, I

If you’ve ever read about someone suffering the ravages of a hunger strike and the violence of forced feeding, you have an insight into what

As we mark the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, for most it will not

On Aug. 6 and 9 the world will observe the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The 75th anniversary raises the

This coming August marks not only the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II but also of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and

The first weekend of quarantine, my husband and I decided we were not going to attend Mass. Things weren’t publicly suspended yet in our diocese,

St. John XXIII Parish is 15 years old this summer. I have been pastor throughout that time. There was the initial planting of a new

As the COVID-19 pandemic made its way around the globe in 2020, people of all races, ages and walks of life watched and waited. A