In the weeks and months following the global economic shutdown due to the novel coronavirus and the international quarantines and shelter-in-place orders...
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We’ve recently had a taste of what it’s like not to go to church. We literally couldn’t gather. Since the root word for church, ekklesia, means “assembly,” not...
I was introduced to writer Brian Doyle only a year ago. I blame this on the fact that I’m a convert, not a cradle Catholic. In many ways, I think God was...
Read The Moment of TendernessBy Madeleine L’Engle (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) “The world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn’t hers anymore.” Little...
In the not too distant past, the sexual abuse of children was not seen for the terrible, unacceptable thing that it is. Often when it happened, not only in our...
Barbara Dane loves middle schoolers. She’s been working with adolescents in a youth ministry capacity for more than 20 years. Before that, she taught seventh...
As U.S. Catholics become ever more diverse, so too are Catholic parishes. The result, says professor Brett Hoover, who teaches theology at Loyola Marymount...
The Catholic Church is often referred to as a “big tent” under which people of all backgrounds and perspectives can gather together in faith. In the literary...
Rural parishes don’t lack the people and resources to be the vibrant faith communities they are called to be. Local churches are called to be and do the...
“If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has goodwill, who am I to judge?” Pope Francis’ well-known words mark a new stage in the church’s relationship...
