Wow! With the visit of Pope Francis, what an amazing time to be Catholic in America! Will it change things? Yes. The Catholic Church in the United States will...
Articles
The Soul of a Pilgrim By Christine Valters Paintner (Sorin Books, 2015) Through a confluence of grace and timing, Christine Valters Paintner’s The Soul of a...
On one of the first evenings after our then foster (now adopted) daughter Teenasia came to live with us, second-grade Jacob was at the dining room table doing...
Despite working hard, thousands of families are struggling to make ends meet. Last summer more than 20 community groups, labor unions, and social justice...
My wife and I run together at a local state park. “Together” is optimistic; I can no longer keep pace with her. We ran track together in college, but I am a...
Every weeknight, sometime between 9:30 and 10:45 p.m., my husband will stand and say, “I’m heading up.” He climbs the stairs, stops in the bathroom, and gets...
Surf Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment (Self-released, 2015) Much of the buzz about Surf, the indie debut from musical collective The Social...
Is anti-Catholicism again becoming mainstream in America? Catholic ridicule is fair game these days for comedians and artists, for Broadway shows and talk...
“That’s Jesus, Mama!” shouted my cousin’s exuberant daughter, Claire. Her mother was reading to her not from the gospels, but from the climactic scene of The...
A couple years ago, when Jon’s daughter tried out for the local club soccer team, she was placed on the B team. “Kayla had been the star of her rec team the...
