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Issue: October 2026

How Does One Become a Saint?

By Rev. Mr. Justin Motes
“In all times, God chooses from these many who, following more closely the example of Christ, give outstanding testimony to the Kingdom of heaven by shedding their blood or by the heroic practice o...
Issue: October 2026

Americans on the Path to Sainthood

By Madeline Walz
There are dozens from the United States with open canonization causes – too many to list here. In addition to the Georgia Martyrs, these are a few who may one day become saints. Blesseds Bl. Fran...
Issue: October 2026

Dying for the Faith

By Beverly Willett
Have you ever thought about what you’d be willing to die for? Few of us have probably given that question serious contemplation. The closest I’ve come was several years ago when one of my daughter...
Issue: October 2026

The Georgia Martyrs: Who Were They?

After the successful founding of St. Augustine in 1565, the Spanish established a string of missions along the Atlantic coast of La Florida. Along this coast lived the Guale, a chiefdom of Mississi...
Issue: September 2026

The Evangelical Power of Laudato Si’

By Nathan Krupa
Graves Mountain is 40 miles north of Augusta, GA – at least, it used to be. It’s mostly gone now: In the 1920s, they started mining it for a mineral called rutile that was used by Tiffany & Co....
Issue: September 2026

Bridging the Gap: Catholic Charities Reduces Food Waste and Hunger

Catholic Charities of South Georgia is doing its part to help the environment by reducing waste and turning would-be losses into valuable gains for people in our community. “We rescue food,” says ...
Issue: September 2026

The Allostatic Load

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
It was another blazing hot summer around the Diocese of Savannah! That kind of punishing heat, combined with a thick, suffocating humidity, made the season characteristically uncomfortable. Steppin...
Issue: September 2026

Bright Wings

By Father Kevin O'Keefe
God’s Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ (1844 – 1889) The world is charged with the grandeur of God.       It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;       It gathers to a greatness, like ...
Issue: September 2026

Sustainability Tips

Buy what you need: One purchase affects the entire supply chain. Try to reduce purchasing heavily packaged/processed foods and/or takeout, and opt to cook at home more often, if you’re able. Better...
Issue: September 2026

Diocese Participates in New Laudato Si’ Initiative

Patrick Tunnell, Director of Fellowship and Life, was recently appointed to be the diocesan representative for the Laudato Si’ Leadership Cohort organized in January by the USCCB and supported by t...
Issue: September 2026

Lasting Legacies of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (1566–1680)

By David Hurst Thomas
Throughout the 17th century, Mission Santa Catalina de Guale remained the northernmost extension of Spanish control over eastern North America. But the founding of Charles Town in 1670 challenged S...
Issue: August 2026

Chronology of Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Savannah

This is expanded from the “History of Our Present-Day Diocesan Schools” section of the article “A Chronology of Catholic Education.” Date ranges denote founding and (if applicable) closing of schoo...
Issue: August 2026

A Chronology of Catholic Education

Education of Children Prior to the Time of Christ In ancient China, the first educational system began during the Xia Dynasty. Later, Zhou Dynasty schools focused on training young men to serve the...
Issue: August 2026

Let Us Sing the Songs of the Saints!

The universal Church celebrated the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 12; at Savannah’s parish of the same name, more than 100 children and teens, ages 8–18, gathered to sing vespers i...
Issue: August 2026

The Home as the School of Life

By Patrick Tunnell
I have a conviction that if my kids read good books they will turn out okay. Especially if they have parents who love both them and said books. This, to me, seems the surest path to happiness and s...
Issue: August 2026

Teaching Our Children About the Faith

By Rachel Swenson Balducci
I fell deeply in love with my Catholic faith the summer before my junior year of high school. I was at a youth conference far from home, surrounded by hundreds of other teenagers. We were all atten...
Issue: August 2026

The Aim of Religious Education: Discipleship and Evangelization

By Paul Albert
In his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis offers a compelling vision for a Church that “goes forth” with courage, compassion, and joy. Written just eight ...
Issue: August 2026

Reflections from School Leaders

Mary Anne Hogan, President, St. Vincent’s Academy, Savannah The start of every new school year brings such great excitement that we can lead more young women to Christ! Jacob Horne, Principal, Be...
Issue: August 2026

Preparing Hearts, Educating Minds, and Revealing Christ

By Carrie Jane Williamson
In The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools, Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, writes, “The specific purpose of a Catholic education is the formation of boys and girls who will be good citizens ...
Issue: July 2026

Prayer and Action 2026

Prayer and Action (PandA) swept across Savannah last month, as nearly 150 high school teens and recent graduates from around the diocese took part in the popular Catholic missionary program focused...
Issue: July 2026

Georgia's Catholic Governor

By Nathan M. Ware
A little-known fact – even to historians of the state – is that, out of Georgia’s 77 governors (from 1776 to 2026), there is one known to have been Catholic: Richard Howly. Even more interesting i...
Issue: July 2026

Cast Into the Deep

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
Standing on the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee, I basked in the morning sun while waiting to board a boat on which I would learn how first-century fishermen cast their nets to catch fish. Looking ...
Issue: May 2026

National Eucharistic Pilgrimage honors Georgia Martyrs ahead of historic beatification

By Beverly Willett, EWTN News
Day 3 of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage began in Georgia on Tuesday – the second day of a 142-mile pilgrimage through the Diocese of Savannah, a day devoted to walking in the footsteps of the ...
Issue: May 2026

Conversion at the Margins

By Nathan Krupa
I think the Holy Spirit wants you to be the grant writer for the food bank,” was not what I had been expecting to hear. I was meeting with my spiritual director, the founder of Golden Harvest Food ...
Issue: May 2026

A Few Patron Saints for Prison Ministry

St. Moses the Black Moses the Black, one of the Desert Fathers, was born in AD 330. He converted from a criminal past and became a monk. He was enslaved as a young man, but was sent away after com...
Issue: May 2026

A Brief Look at the Catholic Church and the Corrections System

AD 33: Jesus of Nazareth is held prisoner in Jerusalem, while awaiting trial before Pontius Pilate; after being tortured by Roman guards, he receives the death sentence. 66–68: The Apostles Peter ...
Issue: May 2026

Thou Shalt Not Kill

By Beverly Willett
I’ve considered myself a Christian since age eight, when I professed faith in Jesus at the Baptist church where I grew up. But when I entered OCIA in 2017, I still had much to learn. One thing in ...
Issue: May 2026

Medicine on the Margins

By Kim Kuebler, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FAAN
“I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” —Matthew 25:36 Correctional Facility: Prison The cold, heavy, steel door slams...
Issue: May 2026

Ministry to the Margins: Stories from Prison Ministry

By Braelyn Snow
You may recognize Deacon Michael Carbo  from this year’s Annual Catholic Appeal video, declaring,  “Your gift to the Annual Catholic Appeal supports my ministry.” One portion of that ministry is vi...
Issue: April 2026

An Order for the Rest of Us: The Alleluia Community

By Nathan Krupa
The phrase religious order probably calls to mind a group of single men or women, all wearing matching outfits, pursuing the mission the Lord gave their founder. The members of the order feel a spe...
Issue: April 2026

Meet a Catholic: Religious Life Edition

By Braelyn Snow
There are many religious sisters and brothers currently serving in our diocese, and there are also others originally from here who are living out a religious vocation elsewhere. Here are a few who ...
Issue: April 2026

The Cloistered Vocation

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
My first encounter with the hidden world of cloistered life came during my freshman year of college, thanks to a friend in his mid-20s who had just been ordained a priest. A week after his ordinati...
Issue: April 2026

Many Paths, One Consecration

By Father Francisco Gamboa
Consecrated life belongs to the very heart of the Church. From her earliest centuries, men and women – “experts of communion,” as Pope Francis urged them to be – have felt called by the Holy Spirit...
Issue: April 2026

Fostering Religious Vocations

By Ellen Mongan
“To choose a vocation is to choose the way in which we are to be saved.” —St. Alphonsus Liguori The Church’s Role One of the Church’s important roles is to foster religious vocations. There are f...
Issue: March 2026

Stewardship 2.0

By Maureen Coates
I can tell you the exact moment I truly embraced stewardship: It was four years after I took the job as Managing Director of Stewardship and Development for the Diocese of Savannah. There’s an und...
Issue: March 2026

All is Given

By Nathan Krupa
As a fundraiser hitting my fifteenth year of feeding the hungry, I know that discussions of stewardship normally zero in on “Time, Talent, and Treasure,” and how I can give back to the Church. I th...
Issue: March 2026

All is Gift

By Rachel Swenson Balducci
I recently came across a quote from a mindset guru, but the more I thought about it, it’s actually sound theology. “‘I just don’t want that for myself anymore’ is a valid enough reason to stop any...
Issue: March 2026

The King's Men: Sacred Masculinity

By Beverly Willett
Growing up Baptist, the word stewardship meant that yearly Sunday when deacons spoke from the pulpit about the importance of tithing. Converting to Catholicism opened a greater world of service ass...
Issue: March 2026

Avoiding the Usury Trap and Spending Wisely

By Christine Anderson
The Catholic Church, as a wise mother, forms the faithful in temperance and fortitude so they may freely practice self-denial in a world that constantly rewards immediate indulgence. Through perenn...
Issue: March 2026

Everyone Needs a Little Jesus

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
“Everyone needs a little Jesus,” the cashier cheerily proclaimed as she placed an inch-high plastic Jesus figurine, wearing a purple sash, in my hand. I laughed and couldn’t wait to pass along the ...
Issue: March 2026

Finance as Ministry

By Susan Beke
Every morning when I drive into work, I reflect on how I might encounter God in the day ahead. I wonder how God will reveal himself to me: Will it be through a conversation with a pastor, an intera...
Issue: March 2026

Why Does God Need My Money?

By Father Kevin O'Keefe
I don't remember learning the precepts of the Church until graduate school or seminary. I suppose that I had not paid attention to them before, since they were woven into my childhood upbringing an...
Issue: February 2026

Cleaning House: A Lenten Reflection

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
In October 2005, Pope Benedict XVI met with a group of children at the Vatican who had recently made their first confession before receiving first Communion. During the encounter, one of the childr...
Issue: February 2026

This is the Life!

By Ellen Mongan
“Life happens when you are in the midst of making other plans.” This saying has proved true in my own life. I, who desired to be a Carmelite nun, confess that my plan failed. Instead, I moved to Mi...
Issue: February 2026

The Family: Home of Love, School of Communion, and Mission // La Familia: Hogar de Amor, Escuela de Comunión y Misión

By Father Carlos Rivero
There are words that sound small yet hold up the world. “Family” is one of them. It is not merely a social fact or a practical arrangement for living together; it is a daily mystery where one learn...
Issue: February 2026

Family is the Church at Home

By Braelyn Snow
Kevin and Kristina Pinto met as recent college graduates living in the Diocese of Orlando. Kristina, a lifelong Floridian, had served as president of campus ministry at the University of Central Fl...
Issue: February 2026

Giving Our Yes to Life

By Nathan Krupa
The coffee shop barista, noticing my quite pregnant wife, commented, “Congratulations on your baby! Is this your first?” “No, it’s our seventh,” my wife replied. The barista’s eyes widened, replyi...
Issue: February 2026

It's Not Weakness, It's Reality

By Rachel Swenson Balducci
One Sunday many years ago, the family Balducci sat in one of the front rows of our beautiful, historic downtown church. We had started a new adventure of sitting up close so the boys could follow w...
Issue: February 2026

Further Reflections on Family Life

By Melinda Cannady, Sandra Molina, Anna Albert, Paul Albert, Father Andrew Larkin, Father Brett Brannen
Family Dinner with a Side of Apologetics Melinda Cannady I grew up in a devoutly religious family that took up a good half of a back pew at First Baptist Church in Metter, Georgia, on Sunday morn...
Issue: February 2026

Recommended Fellowship and Life Resources

The Office of Fellowship and Life helps parishes and schools embrace the great gift of life – life with Christ and with one another – by supporting the domestic Church through families and Christia...
Issue: February 2026

Let Your Kids Catch you Praying

By Patrick Tunnell
A Director of Religious Education (DRE) once vented to me that a parent complained that he did not understand what they were teaching in CCD classes because his child did not know the Hail Mary. Th...
Issue: December 2025

Time and the Theotokos: Marian Apparitions

By Father Dawid Kwiatkowski
Throughout the centuries, the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared in various places around the world, bringing messages of hope, repentance, and faith to humanity. These Marian apparitions – moments w...
Issue: December 2025

The Four Last Things

By Father Drew Larkin
Every new liturgical year, starting with Advent, we begin by focusing on the end. We might expect something festive; instead, we have readings about the end of the world. Advent is a time of prepar...
Issue: December 2025

Time in a Bottle

By Rachel Swenson Balducci
My son Charlie recently asked me about my favorite stage of motherhood. He called while I was on my twice-weekly commute to Athens. I am working on my doctorate in religion at the University of Geo...
Issue: December 2025

A Season of Waiting

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
The parousia – the future return of Jesus. The second coming. The answer to Christ’s Ascension. The realization of God’s divine plan. The terms may vary, but this future fulfillment is a reality th...
Issue: December 2025

Now and at the Hour of my Death

By Nathan Krupa
Our conversation on the spiritual life was stopped by shouts of “The Chinese restaurant is on fire!” Sure enough, a pillar of black smoke rose over the trees about half a mile up the road, from whe...
Issue: December 2025

Aquinas's Proofs for the Eternal God

By Patrick Tunnell
I love the proofs for God's existence by St. Thomas Aquinas. They are often neglected because people are simultaneously overwhelmed and underwhelmed when they crack open the Summa Theologiae for th...
Issue: December 2025

The Beginning of Time

By Nathan M. Ware
Warped by velocity and gravity, time – the fourth dimension, spacetime’s temporal coordinate – is relative. So surmised Albert Einstein in his theories of relativity in the early 1900s. The faster ...
Issue: December 2025

Homily for Fr. Peyton’s 50th Anniversary of His Ordination to the Priesthood

By Father Brian O’Shaughnessy 
This was written for Fr. Thomas Peyton's 50th ordination anniversary in April 2024. Some six months ago, Fr. Peyton called me, which isn’t unusual, but what was different was what he said: Tom was...
Issue: December 2025

El Misterio del Tiempo: Entre la Eternidad y las Últimas Cosas

By Father Carlos Rivero
El tiempo – ese río silencioso que arrastra nuestros días – es a la vez la medida de nuestra vida y el misterio que escapa a toda medida. Vivimos en él, pero se nos escapa entre los dedos como el a...
Issue: November 2025

Harvest of Hope: End-of-the-Year and Tax-Advantaged Giving

The Harvest of Hope campaign continues to open hearts and inspire prayers and sacrifice across the Diocese of Savannah. To date, the campaign has been successfully presented in all but one parish, ...
Issue: November 2025

Artist Spotlight: Anthony VanArsdale

By Braelyn Snow
You may already have a copy of artist Anthony VanArsdale’s work in your home. Based in AL, VanArsdale has illustrated books such as The Boxcar Children and The Night Before Christmas. He has been c...
Issue: November 2025

Celebrating Key Figures in Black Catholic History from our Diocese

Mother Mathilda Beasley: Foundress, first African American women's religious community in Georgia Born in New Orleans to an enslaved Creole mother and a Native American father and orphaned at a yo...
Issue: November 2025

The Saintly Seven

Formerly the Saintly Six, there are now seven Catholics on the path to becoming the first African American saints, each in various stages of the canonization process. Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1...
Issue: October 2025

Reflections on Sports and Virtue

By Ellen Mongan and Garrett Boyer
Sporting Virtue, Teamwork, and Life Lessons By Ellen Mongan Score, touchdown, goal, two points! No matter what the sport, the cheerleader in me rises with a shout! Spontaneously, a smile appear...
Issue: October 2025

Harvest of Hope: Equal Sacrifice, Not Equal Giving

The Harvest of Hope campaign encourages sacrificial giving, and that sacrificial giving occurs at all levels. A beautiful story of sacrifice came to us this month in a letter from Isaiah, a seven-y...
Issue: October 2025

Coaches' Spotlight

By Bradley Vickers
Coach Pierce's Legacy Beloved coach Chester Pierce, a native of Macon and a devout Catholic, passed away earlier this year, on January 11, at the age of 76. He made an impact on many lives in the ...
Issue: October 2025

Pietra Fitness

By Kate Upshaw
On a November morning in 2023, 22 women gathered in the Holy Family Hall of St. Anne Catholic Church, Richmond Hill, for our first ever Pietra Fitness class. We began as every Pietra class begins, ...
Issue: October 2025

Celebrating our Student Athletes

Thanks to all from our Catholic schools and parishes who submitted stats on student athletics for the Spring 2024 and Fall 2025 seasons. Send any additions to This email address is being protected ...
Issue: October 2025

Priests + Sports

Our priests are men of many interests, including athletics. Here is what some of our spiritual fathers had to say about their favorite sports. Fr. Paulinus Okpala I love watching soccer and tenni...
Issue: October 2025

Angelus Fútbol

By Bradley Vickers
It has been said that “life is what happens when you’re busy making plans.” Juan Jose Morales is a great example of the truth of that statement. Morales, a parishioner at Sacred Heart, Warner Robi...
Issue: September 2025

Harvest of Hope: The Projects Have Begun!

Following closely on the success of the Block One parishes – those who conducted the Harvest of Hope campaign in the first half of 2025 – the remaining 45 parishes of the Diocese of Savannah began ...
Issue: September 2025

A Brief History of Hispanic Catholics in the US

1493 Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) returns to the New World on his second voyage. Sailing with him are the first missionaries to the New World: Benedictine Bernardo Buil, the first aposto...
Issue: September 2025

Transmitiendo el Evangelio

By Bradley Vickers
Radio Misión Católica, la única emisora católica en español de la diócesis de Savannah, no depende de las ondas radiofónicas en el sentido tradicional. En su lugar, la emisora utiliza una plataform...
Issue: September 2025

Streaming the Gospel

By Bradley Vickers
Radio Misión Católica, the only Spanish-language Catholic radio station in the Diocese of Savannah, doesn’t rely on radio airwaves in the traditional sense. Instead, the online media platform relie...
Issue: September 2025

Many Cultures, but One Heart in Christ

By Braelyn Snow
Sandra Molina, Director of Cultural Engagement for the Diocese of Savannah, is a great example of how God can transform one small yes into abundant fruit. Like many apostles and prophets before her...
Issue: August 2025

Defending the Faith: The Knights of Columbus

By Bradley Vickers
Knightly imagery can be found throughout the Bible. A knight’s virtues, actions, strength, courage, protection, and service to God are all part of a strict code of conduct known as chivalry. Chiva...
Issue: August 2025

This Little Light of Mine

By Beverly Willett
Most of my adult life I hid my faith. I debated whether I was more of a Peter or a Judas, even though I never openly denied God or sold Jesus down the river. But who was I kidding? I might as well ...
Issue: August 2025

A Mouth Full of Life and Death

By Nathan Krupa
The exorcism took longer than I had expected. I prayed on my knees for a little over three hours, gently holding the possessed person down when the demon manifested and started misbehaving. The exo...
Issue: August 2025

A Teen's Reflection on Prayer & Action

By Philomena Cubbedge
Prayer and Action is a Catholic mission program that gives high school teens an opportunity to serve in their local diocese while living in authentic Catholic community with their peers. It provide...
Issue: August 2025

Harvest of Hope Update: Block One Success!

Planting seeds for the future of our parishes and missions As of July 15, 2025, the Harvest of Hope capital campaign has generated almost $7.8M toward our $25M campaign goal. Nine of the twenty-fo...
Issue: August 2025

What Can You Offer Me?

By Ellen Mongan
Jesus first called his disciples, then trained them, and finally sent them out, telling them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature” (Mk 16:15). Priests, deacons, and r...
Issue: August 2025

Defending the Faith: On Heresies

By Justin Motes
Heresy: the obstinate denial or doubt, after baptism, of a truth which must be believed by divine and Catholic faith (Code of Canon Law, can. 751) I do not endorse subscribing to a heretical posit...
Issue: August 2025

On Becoming a Philosopher

By Patrick Tunnell
Before I began working for the Diocese of Savannah, I taught theology and philosophy at a Catholic high school in Macon. I remember the first time I learned that there were institutions like this i...
Issue: July 2025

From the Last Supper to the Novus Ordo

AD 33 Jesus institutes the eucharistic celebration at the Last Supper (Lk 22:18-20). The risen Christ appears to the two disciples walking to Emmaus through the “opening of the scriptures” (Liturg...
Issue: July 2025

The Sacred Liturgy

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
Medical professionals, behavioral health providers, and even those engaged in ministerial care frequently use the Bio-Psychosocial-Spiritual (BPSS) Model, as it is an important, useful, holistic fr...
Issue: July 2025

Liturgical Culture and Traditions: “A Shadow of Homesickness”

By Nathan M. Ware
“The only thing that can produce...any shadow of homesickness in one who has in truth come home, is the rhythm of Cranmer’s prose.”  – G. K. Chesterton Having spent most of my life in churches ari...
Issue: July 2025

Liturgical Culture and Traditions: “Sing and Make Music from Your Heart to the Lord”

By Sharon Mays
The Church has a rich history of singing within the Mass and Divine Office, which begins with the Judaic tradition of chanting Scripture – cantillation. The principles of cantillation, giving intel...
Issue: July 2025

Liturgical Culture and Traditions: “Let My Praise to You Be Like Incense”

By Nathan Krupa
My pastor likes incense. He uses it whenever he can. He incenses the altar after processing at the beginning of Mass. He or the deacon incenses the Book of the Gospels before proclaiming the Word. ...
Issue: July 2025

Who Can Become Pope?

By Justin Motes
In the wake of Pope Francis's death in April 2025, Amazon  Prime Video was quick to promote to its subscribers the 2024 political thriller film Conclave. Knowing that every eye would soon be turned...
Issue: June 2025

Called Together to be Sent Forth

By Katharine Rose
AS THE DIOCESE OF Savannah celebrates its 175th anniversary, a sense of anticipation is building for a milestone event this fall: the Diocesan Jubilee Gathering. On October 11, the faithful from ac...
Issue: June 2025

The Making of a Pilgrimage: Why Pilgrimage?

By Deacon Jay Dallas
Amy Giuliano had a nice line in an article featured in a recent issue of Magnificat. She said, “Pilgrimage is physical travel in pursuit of a spiritual goal. It is a microcosm of the soul’s lifelon...
Issue: June 2025

The Making of a Pilgrimage: Women en Route to Rome

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
I can still feel the coolness of the sarcophagus containing the body of St. Catherine of Siena, mystic and Doctor of the Church, located under the altar at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva...
Issue: June 2025

The Making of a Pilgrimage: We Have Holy Sites in our Backyard

By Braelyn Snow
Mike Bolton, a lifelong Savannahian and member of Blessed Sacrament Church, had heard of people going on pilgrimages growing up but had never paid much attention to the idea. It wasn’t until 2023, ...
Issue: June 2025

The Making of a Pilgrimage: Pilgrimage Draws us Closer to God

By Braelyn Snow and Bradley Vickers
This Jubilee Year has been designated as a time to renew ourselves as “Pilgrims of Hope,” and Bishop Stephen D. Parkes has encouraged everyone to make at least one pilgrimage during this special ye...
Issue: June 2025

The Making of a Pilgrimage: Journey of the Soul

By Rev. Mr. Ziemowit Janaszek
The concept of pilgrimage is deeply rooted in the Bible. From the very beginning of the Old Testament (Ex 23:14-17; Dt 16:16), and throughout the New Testament (Lk 2:41-42; Acts 2:5-11), we see the...
Issue: May 2025

Diocesan Jubilee Calendar 2025

For more information, visit diosav.org/jubilee
Issue: May 2025

My Only Job is to Get You to Heaven

By Katharine Rose
As one of the largest dioceses in the United States by geographic area, the Diocese of Savannah boasts an ethnically and culturally rich population. Among its diversity is a large Vietnamese commun...
Issue: May 2025

Worthy of the Kill

By Michael P. Foley
Food is much on our mind these days, and not just because of inflation, RFK Jr., or the fact that we skipped breakfast this morning. Our age has become characterized by a double anxiety over public...
Issue: May 2025

Farming in Faith

By Bradley Vickers
In conjunction with the feast of St. Isidore the Farmer (May 15), four Catholic-run farms around our diocese share about their work and faith. Dick Minor, Minor Brothers Farms St. Mary, Americus ...
Issue: May 2025

From Kenya with Love

By Bradley Vickers
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Luke 10:2 Sister Ancilla Abonyo and Sister Imelda Ngwitu ha...
Issue: April 2025

Harvest of Hope and the Power of Endowments

An endowment fund is an investment portfolio that generates income for a nonprofit or charitable organization. The principal amount remains intact, while the earnings from investments are used for ...
Issue: April 2025

Motherhood as Work

By Kelly Tolman
I remember a few years ago when my daughter Fiona had to dress as the profession she wanted to be when she grew up for a school project. Her siblings and I sat around the dinner table the night bef...
Issue: April 2025

A Christian Does Not Work Alone

By Father Lewis King
Work is an activity (means) performed by an agent to achieve a desired goal (end). In forming and fashioning us for the sake of friendship with himself, God added a further dignity to the human per...
Issue: April 2025

A Labor of Love

By Jim Halley
St. James the Less is getting its first major facelift since its sanctuary was dedicated in 1990, and in some ways, the adjustment has meant going back even farther in time for the parish. With ren...
Issue: April 2025

What Makes Work Worthwhile

By Dr. Kent Lasnoski
A ragged sixty-nine year old woman scrubs away at some particularly stubborn toilet stains, further toughening her calloused hands. Simple manual labor is probably familiar work for her; after all,...
Issue: April 2025

Dominion Means Work

By Nathan Krupa
Jesus teaches us that our labor is not an obstacle to holiness. Rather, work is the way to grow in holiness. I’ve been a homeowner for a few years now, and I’ve discovered something that I never r...
Issue: March 2025

Harvest of Hope: Strong Parishes Make a Strong Diocese

One of the most exciting elements of the Harvest of Hope campaign is the “parish case.” Each pastor and parish have assembled a project or group of projects that can be carried out as the Harvest o...
Issue: March 2025

Georgia: Marriage Central, USA?

By Beverly Willett
Marriage is in serious trouble. Could God be calling Catholics to take up the cross of marriage restoration? Recent events certainly make Georgia look like the ideal place to initiate a nationwide ...
Issue: March 2025

Georgia Catholic Author Turns 100!

By Nathan M. Ware
This month, we celebrate the centennial of the birth of Catholic author and Savannah native Flannery O’Connor. Generally considered one of the finest fiction writers this country has produced, she ...
Issue: March 2025

Flannery O'Connor and My Conversion to Catholicism

By Erin Ware
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.” About 15 years ago, on a trip to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA, I picked up a book titled Flannery...
Issue: March 2025

The Message Behind the Veil

By Father Lewis King
Every Mass is an efficacious demonstration of the love God has for us; every Mass is the expression and eternal perpetuation of his nuptial covenant with humanity. Our nuptial consent, our solemn g...
Issue: March 2025

Flesh of My Flesh!

Father Andrew Larkin, Parochial Vicar of the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and Defender of the Bond in the Diocesan Tribunal, shares a priest’s perspective on the ins and outs of matri...
Issue: March 2025

Together for 50 Years

Laurence & Alicia McMaster St. Joseph the Worker, Augusta Laurence: We were working in an electrical supply store in Trinidad and met over a pack of chewing gum. Then there was a company Chri...
Issue: February 2025

Introducing the Harvest of Hope Campaign

Learn More About Harvest of Hope With a goal of raising $25 million, the Harvest of Hope capital campaign draws on what we learned from the Reflect+Renew+Rejoice diocesan planning initiative begun...
Issue: February 2025

Vatican Norms for the Jubilee Indulgence: Pilgrimage, Penance, Service

Pope Francis opened the 2025 Jubilee Holy Year at the Vatican on Dec. 24, 2024, and will close it on Jan. 6, 2026, the Feast of the Epiphany. The jubilee will also be celebrated at sacred sites in ...
Issue: February 2025

Our Place in History

By Ethan Fagner
The first month of the new year has come and gone, and already we are getting into the swing of the 2025 Jubilee. During this time, it is good to reflect on how we wish to approach the coming month...
Issue: February 2025

The Legacy We Leave Behind

How did you become our diocesan archivist? My first career out of college was in higher education administration, which I did for about 11 years. I couldn’t move up in that world without a master’...
Issue: February 2025

Capturing Catholic History One Moment at a Time

By Nathan M. Ware
Savannah photographer Paul Camp, frequently seen covering events at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, had little interest in photography for much of his life. He spent his time, rathe...
Issue: December 2024

Five for Five: Immaculate Conception Catholic School

By Alison Palfy
In a world where educational gaps can feel insurmountable, Immaculate Conception Catholic School of Special Education (ICCS) in Augusta is not just closing those gaps – it is eliminating them altog...
Issue: December 2024

Jubilee 2025

By Nathan M. Ware
Originally part of the vast Diocese of Baltimore (est. 1789), Georgia since 1820 had been included in the smaller Diocese of Charleston (composed of Georgia and the Carolinas). With the influx of C...
Issue: December 2024

Avoiding a Christmas Crisis

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
For a season that is widely acclaimed to be “the most wonderful time of the year,” you have probably noticed that there are many people who appear anxious, stressed out, and sad around Christmas ti...
Issue: December 2024

Where is Our Hope?

By Father Daniel F. Firmin
It was during Christmas break 1999, at the Red Lion Pub in Augusta, Georgia, when I first encountered the virtue of hope. Sitting at the bar as my friends set up for a gig, I thought to myself, I –...
Issue: December 2024

If Every Day Were Christmas

By Ellen Mongan
What is it about Christmas that makes my heart soar into a joyful melody? Christmas is a time of year when everyone seems to hear the sound of music ringing in their hearts. They seem to be living ...
Issue: December 2024

Hope in the Holy Land

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
Placing my palm on the holy ground where Jesus was born in Bethlehem, where he died on the Cross and was resurrected in Jerusalem, and where he ascended to the Father from the Mount of Olives are s...
Issue: December 2024

Help & Hope

By Bradley Vickers
The Christmas season is a good time to reflect on the blessings in our lives, offer thanks, and remember to keep those less fortunate in our prayers. Since late September, many people have had thei...
Issue: December 2024

Catholic Charities Launches Into Hurricane Relief Efforts

By Bradley Vickers
The Christmas season is a good time to reflect on the blessings in our lives, offer thanks, and remember to keep those less fortunate in our prayers. Since late September, many people have had thei...
Issue: November 2024

St. Benedict the Moor Celebrates 150 Years of Parish Life

On October 4–6, St. Benedict the Moor, Savannah celebrated 150 years of worship and community. Founded by five French Benedictine monks to care for the freed slaves in the diocese, the historically...
Issue: November 2024

Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

By Father Lewis King
The various names of the Church all reveal something about her: the People of God, the Mystical Body, the Bride of Christ, the Way, etc. Perhaps the loveliest and most revealing of her names is “th...
Issue: November 2024

Solidarity With the Saints

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
"Nic, she needs you. Now.” Stunned, I listened as Frances, the mother of one of my best friends, requested that my husband and I fly out to the West Coast for her only daughter’s emergency open-hea...
Issue: November 2024

Sharpening Character

By Nathan Krupa
The normally quiet nighttime hours on September 27th weren’t particularly quiet. An unwelcome guest by the name of Hurricane Helene came knocking on the door. I woke up at 3:33 AM to gurgling in th...
Issue: November 2024

Who Wants to be a Saint?

By Ellen Mongan
"So, who wants to be a saint?” asked Fr. John in his weekly sermon. I can still see hands raised high, some parishioners shouting, “I do!” Not everyone raised their hand; the first hands up were of...
Issue: November 2024

Black Catholic History Month

On May 28, 1988, Father Robert Chaney of St. Benedict the Moor became the first Black Catholic to be ordained to the diocesan priesthood for the Diocese of Savannah. Fr. Chaney celebrated his first...
Issue: October 2024

Catholics under Scrutiny

By Bradley Vickers
We at the Southern Cross believe that our content should not only inform, but also uphold and defend our Catholic faith. The following serves to show why pro-Catholic publications are so important ...
Issue: October 2024

"Brain Death" and Organ Donation

By Nathan M. Ware
"The identification of brain death with the death of the human being is from a Christian viewpoint, at this state in the debate, no longer defensible." –Cardinal Joachim Meisner To avoid what migh...
Issue: October 2024

The Hands of Jesus

By Hanna Suddath, Braelyn Snow
At the heart of healthcare are the people who make it happen: our healthcare workers and providers. Here, two nurses who worked in the ICU open up about their calling to be the hands of Jesus to th...
Issue: October 2024

The Kolbe Center

Ten years of serving families in Macon The building was originally slated to house an abortion clinic, but God had other plans. The Kolbe Center recently celebrated ten years of serving Macon as a...
Issue: October 2024

Will I Need My Kidneys in Heaven?

By Father Michael Kavanaugh
Some of the most important theological questions that have ever been asked are: “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” and “If God is all powerful, can he make a stone larger than he can...
Issue: October 2024

Searching for the Truth Together

By Patrick Tunnell
In modern society we tend to revere and elevate the wisdom of medical doctors. One might say doctors and scientists have become the priests of the secular age. Now, I’m not a materialist, nor am I ...
Issue: September 2024

Never Been Happier

By Helen Almeter
Part of Almeter's vocation story includes an instance of receiving an unexpected gift from a colleague: dozens of roses.  On her deathbed, St. Thérèse of Lisieux promised she would "let fall from ...
Issue: September 2024

A Practical Guide toward Happiness through God’s Merciful Love

By Catherine V. Upshaw, LCSW
For the last fifteen years, I’ve worked as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, offering psychotherapy to a diverse population. My role has involved helping people navigate emotional challenges and a...
Issue: September 2024

Thomas's Recipe for Happiness

By Patrick Tunnell
As I have grown older I have been startled to realize that most of the adults in my life do not seem to be happy. Maybe a more accurate way of saying this is that they seem happy, but I suspect tha...
Issue: September 2024

Spirituality and Psychology

By Garrett Boyer, PsyD
Humans, by our very nature, are inherently spiritual beings. Similarly, by our human nature, we have the capacity for abstract thought, reason, logic, and emotionality, which all fuel the psyche. H...
Issue: September 2024

“Do what makes you happy.”

By Hanna Suddath
Often spoken as an encouragement or affirmation, this phrase highlights the various forms and meanings which the term “happiness” has taken on within our culture today.  The first definition of ha...
Issue: August 2024

In Due Time

By Ellen Mongan
In 2 Chronicles 7:14, we read, “If then my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven an...
Issue: August 2024

Angelic Hierarchy

By Madeline Walz
We all know about guardian angels and can probably name at least one archangel, but what about the other orders? Many people have written about angels, including St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine,...
Issue: August 2024

Satan Hates the Word

By Nathan Krupa
“The truth hurts,” the saying goes. Apparently, if you’re a demon, that’s literally true. When I assisted in an exorcism, God revealed the power of the Holy Scriptures in a rather dramatic way. As...
Issue: August 2024

In Search of Greener Pastures

By Braelyn Snow
On the drive to photograph vocations camp, I turned onto the dirt road leading to the grounds when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a rust-colored shape move. Slowing down, I saw it was...
Issue: August 2024

May Goodness Rise

By Justin Motes
Were you to ask Father Brett Brannen, the former exorcist for the Diocese of Savannah, if the devil were real, he’d tell you he has seen him up close and personal. Brannen was previously tasked by ...
Issue: July 2024

Evangelization through Education (Part II)

By Tonia Parrott
I've been teaching in the diocese for 28 years and started teaching Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGS) this year. It’s a hands-on approach to Catholic religious education and it fosters children...
Issue: July 2024

Evangelization through Education

By Carrie Jane Williamson
One Five for Five objective is to prioritize catechesis, formation, and pastoral care for every age, stage, vocation, and walk of life. Catholic education is the largest evangelizing arm and the f...
Issue: July 2024

Ask the Bishop

Students Gerardo Fausto and Mary Elizabeth Snipes interviewed Bishop Parkes, asking questions submitted by their peers. Fausto is a rising junior at St. Teresa’s, Albany. He is interested in explor...
Issue: July 2024

Ask a Priest

Fr. Stephen Pontzer Sacred Heart, Warner Robins Thanks to third-grader Amelia C., fourth-graders Elijah G., Catherine J., Eyan M., Sophia P., Caroline S., and Laila W., and fifth-graders Sterling ...
Issue: July 2024

A Country Built to be Just

By Deacon Joseph P. Mullin, Jr.
On the Fourth of July, the United States celebrates Independence Day. While it is customary and proper to recognize the great history of the men and women who earned us our freedom and what “We the...
Issue: July 2024

Jesus Present in the Eucharist

A lot of times we forget how important being present in the Mass actually is. We just sit through the Mass trying to get it over with and don’t even pay attention to what we are doing. Our actions ...
Issue: July 2024

Favorite Parts of the Mass

ICCS students must attend Mass. Mass is an important ceremony in the Catholic Church. During Mass, everyone is welcome. The priest, students, and teachers do the sign of the cross to show faith in ...
Issue: July 2024

My First Essay

My favorite part of the Mass is serving the Consecration. The beauty of this part of the Mass is immense. The all-powerful changing of the bread and wine into his Body and Blood is infinitely amazi...
Issue: July 2024

Jesus: Present in the Eucharist

“Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.’” (John 6:35) As Catholics, we believe that Jesus is fully presen...
Issue: July 2024

My Favorite Part of the Mass

Although I am not Catholic, I still very much enjoy the Mass. Mass allows me to spend time with God, with a community of people who have similar beliefs as me because I am Christian. My favorite pa...
Issue: June 2024

A New Look at the Past

By Nathan M. Ware
Book Review of Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America: Parish, Church, and Mission. Edited by Kathleen Deagan. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Extremely well...
Issue: June 2024

A Quick Trip Through Our Catholic History (And the Birth of Our Diocese)

By Father Michael Kavanaugh
The people who wrote the histories many of us read about the founding of America were not particularly interested in what a 16th-century rag-tag group of Spanish Franciscans – who had accumulated n...
Issue: June 2024

Movie Review: Wildcat (2023)

By Erin Ware
I recently attended the Savannah premiere of the film Wildcat, about writer and Savannah native Flannery O’Connor. Maya Hawke, who plays Flannery in the film – as well as several colorful character...
Issue: June 2024

Catholic Road Trip!

Archdiocese of Atlanta Atlanta Towering above Peachtree Street in Atlanta’s Hotel District, the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was completed in 1898. Georgia’s first basilica, Sacred Heart...
Issue: June 2024

Excursions and Encounters

By Braelyn Snow
As a child, summer meant day trips. My family would explore parts of Ohio that were off the beaten path, stumbling across an old cemetery or covered bridge while driving or biking the rails-to-trai...
Issue: June 2024

“You are a priest forever”: caring for our retired priests

For a priest, retirement is almost an oxymoron. In most dioceses, including our own, it is called “senior priest status,” for a priest’s ministry is not complete until the Lord calls him home. A ma...
Issue: May 2024

Made in the Image and Likeness of God

By Deacon Joseph P. Mullin, Jr.
“Every human person possesses an infinite dignity, inalienably grounded in his or her very being, which prevails in and beyond every circumstance, state, or situation the person may ever encounter....
Issue: May 2024

Meet a Catholic: FOCUS

By Braelyn Snow
The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) was founded at Benedictine College in 1998 with the goal of sending missionaries to spread the gospel message to college students. There are c...
Issue: May 2024

Missionary Saints

By Madeline Walz
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” These ...
Issue: May 2024

4 Counties, 4 Parishes, 40 Miles

By Justin Motes
Long Stretches of two-lane roads flanked by peanut and cotton fields, the occasional small town, and seemingly countless one-room churches make up rural South Georgia. Having grown up in a small to...
Issue: May 2024

Three Franciscan sisters from Mexico are ministering in Savannah to bring the Catholic Church to underserved communities

By Bradley Vickers
Sisters Mayra E. Fernandez, Esperanza Castellon, and Olga L. López of the Hermanas Franciscanas de Jesús Crucificado in Guadalajara, Mexico, are serving for five years in the Diocese of Savannah, c...
Issue: May 2024

Diocesan Youth Conference

By Bradley Vickers
“Witness” was the theme of this year's Diocesan Youth Conference, hosted by Sacred Heart Parish in Warner Robins, where hundreds of teenage Catholics gathered for a weekend of worship, prayer, fell...
Issue: May 2024

Life is a Mission Field

By Ellen Mongan
A few years ago, my husband Patrick and I were invited to do mission work in Africa. It made total sense for Pat, who was a family care physician. I, on the other hand, was reluctant and unqualifie...
Issue: April 2024

Five for Five: New partnership provides more opportunities to serve the poor in South Georgia

By Latacia Avila
I am excited to announce that the Catholic Diocese of Savannah and the Social Apostolate have partnered to re-form Catholic Charities of South Georgia. The Social Apostolate was created and formed ...
Issue: April 2024

Lord, Hear My Cry: Stories from Coastal State Prison

I’d like to start off by saying I came up in a family which lived by morals and values. We said ma’am and sir and believed in opening and closing doors, also respecting the elderly and believed in ...
Issue: April 2024

Deeper Conversion

By Rachel Swenson Balducci
I was just a young mama nearly drowning in everyday life when Jesus reached his hand across the universe and beckoned me to follow Him. It’s strange to look back on since I have always felt close t...
Issue: April 2024

“Father, what should I do?”

By Father Daniel F. Firmin
Priests hear this question often in the confessional, in the office, at the coffee shop, in line at the grocery store, even on airplanes. Some ask for advice in their marriages. Some ask for tips o...
Issue: April 2024

To Prune and to Grow

By Father Timothy McKeown
This winter, while walking the parish property, I noticed an overgrown, untended crepe myrtle. It had not been trimmed for several years. The branches crossed one another and were covered with Span...
Issue: April 2024

I Chose You

By Father Lewis King
Before the act of creation, every human soul was conceived of in the perfect mind and will of God. Before the dawning of time, God desired your existence and your specific friendship. He Who is Sup...
Issue: March 2024

Couples Married 25 and 50 Years Share

How did you meet and what has strengthened your marriage? Peter & Deborah Murphy Saint William, Saint Simons Island, Gold Debbie: “We met through mutual friends at my parents’ house. For me i...
Issue: March 2024

Catholics and the "Transgender" Movement Part II: A Response

By Fr. John R. Johnson, VF, STL
In the October 2023 issue of the Southern Cross, Fr. Johnson wrote an article addressing the exponential increase in the number of young people who identify as “trans.” This article is Part II of t...
Issue: March 2024

An Advocate for Marriage

By Beverly Willett
A few years ago, I attended the World Marriage Day celebration at my church, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Savannah. This annual Mass recognizes couples throughout our diocese who...
Issue: March 2024

Meet a Catholic: Sam Kerlin and Pete Cummings

Courage International is a Catholic apostolate dedicated to supporting and encouraging men and women who experience same-sex attraction and are committed to striving for chastity. The ministry is i...
Issue: March 2024

The Body as Gift

By Jeff Chardos
One of the more ironically funny moments in my work as a high school religion teacher was when Ascension Press decided to change the name of their Theology of the Body series from Theology of the B...
Issue: March 2024

A Personal Introduction to Theology of The Body

By Patrick Tunnell
Does God love me?" I found myself wondering as a junior in high school, sitting in U.S. History class. We were reading a Puritan sermon titled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, and this work pr...
Issue: February 2024

Pursuing Pilgrimage: Walking the Land and Awakening the Heart

By Nicol Nixon Augusté, PhD
This is my Body, Given up for You Time: 5:00 am. Location: Golgotha, Via Dolorosa station 11, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. I ascend the steep stairs for Mass. A Franciscan...
Issue: February 2024

Surrender All to Jesus

By Ellen Mongan
I often contemplate in prayer my formation in the Catholic faith. When I do, my heart overflows with joy for the nuns who taught me through their example and words. I guess you could say the nuns r...
Issue: February 2024

That’s a Wrap!

By Braelyn Snow
For full cast and crew, visit TheGeorgiaMartyrs.org. To read the extended interviews, visit southerncross-sav.org. An Historian with a Camera: Michael L. Jordan Writer, Producer I started as a lo...
Issue: February 2024

A Sainthood Primer

By Justin Motes
Becoming a saint — a person dwelling eternally in the Holy Trinity — should be the goal of every Christian. This universal call to holiness is echoed in St. Paul’s letter to the Church in Ephesus w...
Issue: December 2023

When East Meets West for Christmas

By Michael P. Foley
Both liturgical calendars of Eastern and Western Christendom celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ on December 25, although the holiday trajectories are not the same. For the Latin West, ...
Issue: December 2023

Meet a Catholic: Fr. Michael Skrocki, J.C.D.

Fr. Michael Skrocki has been a priest for 23 years. He holds a doctorate in Canon Law from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. He serves as the Eparchy’s judicial vicar. St. Ignatios is his...
Issue: December 2023

Personal Bridges

By Father John A. Caparisos
My day-to-day contacts with Roman Catholics began in 1962, my freshman year at Benedictine Military School. I was a stranger in a strange land, where prayers were said in Latin before each class by...
Issue: December 2023

Theological Canyons

By Chuck Watson
Of the various Christian Churches and communities, by far the most similar in thought and practice are the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Why, after centuries of unity, did they sepa...
Issue: December 2023

Breathing with Both Lungs

By Father Michael Kavanaugh
One of the most moving images that comes from the long history of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue is that of the embrace between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. Their first meeting took place on...
Issue: December 2023

The Catholic Church: The World's Melting Pot

By Beverly Willett
The Catholic Church reminds me of New York City. Hence, one important reason I was drawn to the faith. After graduating from law school, I moved to the Big Apple. I’d grown up in a small rural town...
Issue: December 2023

When East Meets West for Christmas

By Michael P. Foley
Both liturgical calendars of Eastern and Western Christendom celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ on December 25, although the holiday trajectories are not the same. For the Latin West, ...
Issue: November 2023

We Have a Mission Here

By Clorinda Bell
My dad was a hobby artist and I always had strong emotions watching him work. Looking at the art felt similar to the emotion of waiting to see someone you’re dating. And since I was eight or nine...
Issue: November 2023

Mental Health Matters

This interview was conducted on the last day of September, which is designated as National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, carrying over into Respect Life Month. Joining us to discuss how Catho...
Issue: November 2023

Faith in the Face of War

By Deacon Kevin Knight
I’ve been a deacon in the Diocese of Savannah since 2020. Before that, I did twenty years and three combat tours flying helicopters for the United States Army.  In fact, a significant number of Di...
Issue: November 2023

Living the Faith in the Face of Danger

By Father Theodore Agba
Eight years ago, in the Borno State of northern Nigeria, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 276 students, most of whom were Christian females between the ages of 16 and 18. When I hear...
Issue: October 2023

Catholics and the “Transgender” Movement: How Did We Get Here? Part I

By Fr. John R. Johnson, VF, STL
Not long ago, in a conversation with a priest friend of mine, I was discussing the breathtaking swiftness with which modern gender theory has spread across college campuses throughout our nation an...

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