“It was as beautiful as any issue of Magnolia Journal. The content was aimed at Catholic women, to help them embrace their homes. It featured more than 100 professional photographs of the homes of Catholic women across the country.”
Christina Capecchi: Theology of home: an invitation to reclaim what matters most
Christina Capecchi: Mapping it out: how to intimately learn Catholicism
“Maps are about remembering.”
Christina Capecchi: Learning how to saunter: the gifts of quarantine
“When you couldn’t go anywhere else – churches were closed, even playgrounds were cordoned off – you could still walk in the woods. So we did, religiously.”
Christina Capecchi: 99-year-old Catholic beats coronavirus, inspiring legions
The nurses kept using the same word. The doctors used it, too: Rock star.
Christina Capecchi: ‘Keep that hope machine running strong’
In the face of a pandemic, people of every color and creed have responded the same way: by adding to the beauty. They perched teddy bears in windows, hung Christmas lights and colored driveways. They drew images that felt like an antidote to all the masks and morgues: hearts, butterflies, rainbows. They tried to tilt the scales of the universe with tempera paint and sidewalk chalk.
Christina Capecchi: ‘I’m not fine’ — the power of an honest answer
“I stopped doing this stupid thing I’ve done pretty much my whole life,” Stephanie Weinert wrote last month in a post. “I stopped saying ‘I’m fine’ when someone asks me how I’m doing. And it’s been life changing.”
Christina Capecchi: What I learned on the pond — reckoning with winter
“Our rink operates only on the darkest, coldest days, when we most need community. We gather not in spite of the chill but because of it. The ice connects us.”
Christina Capecchi: The story of our lives
I believe our stories are sacred. They are worth telling and re-telling.