News from Good Shepherd and Beyond

As the Vatican’s working year wends toward its close at month’s end, a cycle interrupted by a historic outbreak is making up for lost time, and wrapping up with more than one bang. Accordingly, Roman...

Always slated to be American Catholicism's Main Event of 2020 – yet now, an even more poignant and notable one amid the pandemic that's robbed it of a congregation – from Atlanta's empty Cathedral of...

Fifty days into a Stateside Church in lockdown, this first of May brings the latest edition of a ritual as old as American Catholicism itself. A practice employed both in hours of celebration and...

Again, Buona Pasqua – Happy Easter – to one and all, especially those among us seeking its light, joy and hope all the more this year. A couple hundred feet, but really a world away from its usual...

Surrexit Dominus Vere, Alleluia – Buona Pasqua a tutti! Happy Easter to all... yet even if the event and its message is the same, this time the feeling and the scene are all too different. Again from...

Even as the liturgical shutdown of most of the Western church approaches the one-month mark, in a particular way, this is the night when the hit really sinks in. With a disorienting Lent now...

It is a Palm Sunday – the beginning of a Week – like the Christian world has never seen: far from the usual teeming crowds, full choirs and vivid scenes, this time, the pandemic-induced lockdown of...