Dcn. Anton Nickolai
When Dcn. Anton Nickolai first learned about the permanent diaconate, it was “like a lightbulb went off,” he [...]
Preparing the Soil of the Heart
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:10-11 Romans 8:18-23 Matthew 13:1-23 In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells the familiar [...]
Waiting Without Wasting
It is a season of waiting for my family. What we are waiting for is irrelevant. We are [...]
Dwelling in God’s Possibilities
When people consider religious sisters and brothers, they often think of what these women and men have given [...]
Tell Me the Answer
In the final episode of the third season of the NBC comedy, “The Good Place,” the lead character [...]
Body of Christ – Mark Schaer
He was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where he attended Boylan Catholic High School. He earned his undergraduate degree [...]
The Cost — and Promise — of Love
In her poem, “Moonlight,” Sara Teasdale wrote of how “The heart asks more than life can give. [...]
Enlighten the Darkness of My Heart
As I have mentioned in a previous Herald of Hope article, Pope Leo XIV has proclaimed an extraordinary Jubilee [...]
Body of Christ – Carol O’Keefe
Prayer is a steady rhythm in Carol O’Keefe’s life and from that relationship with God she also loves [...]
More Than a Seminary Renovation
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A Exodus 19:2-6a Psalm 100:1-3, 5 Romans 5:6-11 Matthew 9:36–10:8 Mud-pit, dustbowl, wasteland, wonderland, zoo [...]