Sightings Articles
The Necessity of Bridge-Building
David Levithan, author of Boy Meets Boy (2003) and Two Boys Kissing (2013), will be awarded with the 2017 Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Prize at next weekend’s Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Many of the bestselling author’s books feature g...
June 5, 2017
Acknowledging the Good Stuff
Obituaries are seldom a time for irony, even when the subject is known to be religious. Recent obituaries for Sister Susan Moran of Toronto, who died on December 18th, 2016, warranted a full page in Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail (...
January 26, 2017
Suicide among Priests?
“Suicide is on the rise among Irish priests” is the kind of report which causes or should cause concern and a sense of crisis among Irish and non-Irish, priests and non-priests, Catholics and non-Catholics—anyone with humane instincts, empathic conce...
December 19, 2016
Change in Church and State Relations
Concepts and practices of religious freedom...
December 14, 2015
Ringing the Changes on Change
This now-passing spring we have heard and seen changes in the religious spheres, which get described as “stunning,” “startling,” and more. We’ll reach into our internet deposit for just two which have shaken the world of Catholics and millions of the...
June 1, 2015
Catholic Hispanics Defect
The Chicago media is full of stories about a Latino candidate for mayor, and keep Latinos on our minds. We decided to go national/international....