Embracing our common call to holiness
Last weekend I traveled to the Adirondacks for the Catholic Ecology retreat with the St. Kateri Conservation Center. I am currently serving as a board member for the organization, and with the retreat within driving distance I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to attend. I was excited to meet Catholic friends I only knew online, […]
American Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday for me, and many others, as a Native American. Some Native families celebrate it while others do not. It is an annual reminder of the painful past between indigenous people and the Europeans who later came to inhabit their lands. My family has always celebrated Thanksgiving, but I was […]
My family is Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk), one of the six tribes that form the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy that stretches primarily between the northeastern United States and Canada. Native Americans make up 1% of the population of American Catholics, so you may not have encountered many (or any) of us. Americans tend to think that Native people […]
