In a previous blog, I reflected on how priests are expected, often silently, to play multiple roles: public figure, community organizer, counselor, fundraiser, event host, confessor, spiritual guide, and, unofficially, everyone’s friend. You are expected to be available, gracious, attentive,…
“It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.” – Luke 5:31 “The Church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open.” – Evangelii Gaudium, 47 The image of the Church…
I’ve had an on-and-off relationship with the Church since I was 14 years old. But when I became a full-time employee in its media ministry, I entered a world that I hadn’t seen before—not from the pews, and certainly not…
When I left my job to join the newsroom for the Church media, I thought I was walking into a gentler kind of labor. I expected more grace, more understanding, more purpose. I thought serving God through media work would…