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Apr 20, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd
Regina King stars as Shirley Chisholm in a screenshot from the trailer for the feature film "Shirley." (NCR screenshot/YouTube/Netflix) As the first Black woman to run for the presidency of the United States in 1972, seven-term Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm made way for Jesse Jackson in 1984 and, eventually, America's first Black president Barack Obama in 2008.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Kevin Christopher Robles
When I was in fourth grade, my Catholic school held a Scholastic Book Fair in the gym during recess. There weren't many kids there, but I wandered in because I wasn't particularly interested in playing in the yard like most of the other students. I wasn't really a "reader"; I'd read chapter books and some nonfiction fare, but nothing that really sparked my imagination.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd
Colman Domingo portrays Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and chief organizer of the Aug/ 28, 1963, March on Washington. The biopic "Rustin" is streaming on Netflix.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Mary McGlone
When one of my favorite aunts was being complimented, she used to say, "Keep talking, I'm listening!" Her line, if not her motivation, helps us enter into today's Scriptures. From Samuel to Jesus and the disciples, it's all about looking, listening and hearing, attitudes that lead to discovering who we are and are called to be. It's all about vocation: seeking and listening. Today's first reading and the Gospel illustrate two dimensions of our response to God's invitation in our lives.
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Jan 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Tom Smith
I have a long history with meditation, starting with my years in the seminary. So you might think I know what it was and how to do it. You would be partially correct. For me now, meditation is a spiritual exercise of quiet focus which sometimes generates peace, joy and love, offsetting anxiety, depression and fear. Prayer means I talk to God, and meditation implies that God has space to visit with me while I listen. That's my intention at least, even if it is not always my result.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Pat Marrin |Frances D'Emilio
Ukraine’s prime minister said he asked Pope Francis during a private Vatican audience April 27 to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children who were forcibly taken to Russia. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, briefing reporters on his half-hour audience with the pontiff, said he also invited Francis to come to Ukraine. "I asked His Holiness to help us return home Ukrainians, Ukrainian children who are detained, arrested, and criminally deported to Russia,'' Shmyhal said.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd
What happened to her dad's sister, Deedee, informs the former Big Horn County News general manager and editor's determination to discover the truth about the disappearances. Brien's aunt was found dead in the snow in 1977 at the county fairground after being missing for four days. Deedee became, the journalist says, "another dead Indian. And they didn't offer any common decency in writing about her as a missing person and as a human. These cases are not true crime stories to us.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Natalie Frazier |Brett Hoover
Hoover explores how one's reading of biblical texts, or understanding of Jesus' words on hospitality, or the Gospels' narratives about "the stranger" can influence the understanding of a collective responsibility to migrants. Ultimately, this ends with the Catholic teachings around encounter and conversion, and a reminder from Hoover that the best way to become informed on any topic is in proximity.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Pat Marrin
“Jesus came and touched them, saying, ‘Rise, and do not be afraid’” (Matt 17:7). Second Sunday of LentGn 12:1-4a; Ps 33: 2 Tm 1:8b-10; Mt 17:1-9 The Transfiguration, described in all four gospels, was for the early church the linchpin revelation of who Jesus is and why his paradoxical death on the cross was his glory. This moment of intense revelation continues Jesus’ baptism.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Chris Byrd |Mary McGlone
The reading ends with the wonderful summary of a well-lived life: "Abram went as the Lord directed him."We hear today's Gospel, mindful that this scene takes place after the events of Matthew 16.
