Own Your Spirituality
We are often told that one of the most important ways to stay healthy is to keep moving - not to become sedentary. But human nature is...
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Claire's post
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Opposite Attraction
If you are like me, you may be emotionally and spiritually exhausted from the animosity and polarization that exists in our society and...
Claire's post
- May 18, 2022
- 4 min
Abortion: Sophie's Choice
Abortion is the loudest, most contentious topic in American politics and culture today. For the American Catholic Church, abortion has...
claireandthomas
- May 4, 2022
- 4 min
Who Are We Post-Pandemic?
Last week the CDC announced that the U.S. is out of the pandemic stage of the coronavirus. We are beginning to stick our heads outside of...
Claire's post
- Apr 5, 2022
- 4 min
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
The older I get, the more violence disturbs me. Every weeknight, I take my psychic temperature to see if I can tolerate watching the...
Claire's post
- Mar 21, 2022
- 4 min
So You Think This Has Nothing To Do With You
Civil Administration Building, Vatican City For many Catholics, when we think of the Vatican, we imagine St. Peter’s Basilica with its...
Claire's post
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
Pope Francis, Marshall McLuhan, and John Lewis walk into a bar...
The universal Catholic Church is currently engaged in a massive world-wide undertaking. Pope Francis has called for a synod, which is a...
Claire's post
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
The Pets Versus Children Controversy
In his Wednesday general audience a few weeks ago, Pope Francis talked about declining fertility rates, especially in developing...
Claire's post
- Jan 11, 2022
- 2 min
What's It Going To Take To Change The Church?
I have never been attracted to saying the rosary. That said, I love rosary beads. There are five sets in my nightstand that I have...
Claire's post
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Caught Being Good
Our parish grammar school had a long-time first grade teacher who developed a method of classroom management that bordered on genius. ...
Claire's post
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Help! My Child is Going to Hell!
I’ve had the pleasure of co-leading two retreats recently: one for women and the other for men. When I introduced myself, I mentioned...
Claire's post
- Oct 20, 2021
- 4 min
5 Lessons I've Learned About Being A Catholic
Emerson said that life is a succession of lessons that must be lived in order to be understood. Religion is the same way. Here are 5...
Claire's post
- Sep 22, 2021
- 3 min
3 Things I Treasure About Being Catholic
Today I want to highlight three practical aspects of Catholicism that mean the world to me. Retreat Houses Dotted across this country and...
Claire's post
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
Barbie has Something to Say
When my daughters were little, we stayed away from Barbie dolls. They were too sexualized for my taste. The girls grew up with lots of...
Claire's post
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Where Did Jesus Go?
Not long ago, I spent a weekend with my son and daughter-in-law in Concord, Massachusetts. We visited Walden Pond, a national historical...
Claire's post
- Jul 28, 2021
- 2 min
The Creed I Believe
When I was a young girl there was an old upright piano in our garage. Only the top third of the keys worked, but I took to that piano...
Claire's post
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
3 Signs the Church is having an Identity Crisis
I’m told that an identity crisis isn’t a diagnosable condition (except for dissociative identity disorder), so there aren’t any typical...
Claire's post
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Biden and the Bread of Life
Let’s face facts. We Catholics have never been truly faithful to Jesus. In the end, none of us have followed those teachings that most...
Guest Author
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Covid Hummingbirds and Homilies
As dark as the pandemic has been, Anne Pautler reminds us that there were also moments of grace. On June 20 our parish church re-opened...
Claire's post
- Jun 3, 2021
- 5 min
Remembering a Revolution
“This is, all told, a stirring epic of what the Gospel is all about.” The Christian Century (February 18, 1970). The past can come back...
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