Catholic priests don’t wear suits to Mass. So why so many tuxedos at the Met Gala?

kritischetheologie: glintglimmergleam: @ceeturnalia @ameliasscanwells this gal went OFF and i love it whole thread here @catherineaddington the wires are crossing! Hah, thanks y’all! I wrote up my tweetstorm for America Magazine today: This is a culture that buries bones in its altars, builds chapels out of skulls and carries the broken yet whole body of Christ

Cowboy, Engineer, Saint: On the Trail of St. José Brochero

Casa de Ejercicios (Museo Brocheriano) Villa del Tránsito/Cura Brochero, Córdoba, Argentina July 2017 I wrote about my trip to Villa Cura Brochero for America here: The poncho-wearing, cheroot-smoking José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero is often reduced to his nickname: the gaucho (cowboy) priest. In his native Argentina, however, Brochero is known for much more than his

The life of Catholic foundress Cornelia Connelly was ruled by men. Was her obedience to them holy?

“O my love, I have wished to be a Catholic in my acts of love but I am afraid in truth & spirit have been but a discontented protestant,” Cornelia Connelly wrote to her husband. He had just informed her that they would be converting from Episcopalianism to Catholicism, and she would be required to

‘Jane the Virgin’ ofrece una refrescante mirada a la sexualidad cristiana

Mi artículo sobre Jane the Virgin y la representación católica en los medios de comunicación ahora está disponible en español también. ¡Gracias a @americamag-blog por publicar mi traducción! “Jane the Virgin” no pretende ser “la serie católica,” ni tampoco “la serie latina,” pero en ambos casos, la serie experimenta la gran presión de representar estas identidades,

‘Jane the Virgin’ offers a refreshing look into Christian sexuality

The reason Danny doesn’t work, and Jane does, is that Danny Castellano’s character is about being Catholic. Jane simply is Catholic. This is also true of her ethnicity: Her character is not about being Latina, she simply is. “Jane the Virgin” does not understand itself to be “the Catholic show” any more than it understands