Home schooling, once a niche option for countercultural groups, has become more mainstream. Data from the Census Bureau indicate that between 1999 and 2012 the...
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“Do you feed your children macaroni?” This was an actual question that 19th-century officials surveying the Lower East Side of New York City would ask Italian...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify With the help of NETWORK’s historian, Mara Rutten, we explore the 50-year history of U.S. Catholic sisters’...
Readings (Year C): 2 Kings 5:14 – 17Psalms 98:1, 2 – 3, 3 – 42 Timothy 2:8 – 13Luke 17:11 – 19 Reflection: Look for places of...
I am personally weary of violence, but I continue to feel a strong commitment to the suffering poor of Central America. . . . God knows why He continues to...
Holy Ghost Power The Hillbilly Thomists (CD Baby, 2022) As close readers of Catholic media may already know, The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of Dominican...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify One of the best-known of Jesus’ parables is the story commonly referred to as the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” The...
The song “Surface Pressure” from the Disney movie Encanto resonates with me. I was raised to be of service to others: My family and I did some form of...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: I scratched the car and told my husband I didn’t know how it happened. Is that a sin? Should I confess...
In 1967, Brother Benno Garrity arrived at the Prince of Peace Abbey in Oceanside, California. While he was sent to the monastery to retire, he quickly was...
