When the Disney movie Frozen was released in 2013 it didn’t take long before my daughter was singing every song from the movie. After hearing the movie’s...
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Before Loyola University Chicago introduced Jo Ann Rooney as its 24th president in May of this year, Jesuit Father James Prehn delivered an invocation to a...
“Who do people say that I am?” Jesus asked his disciples. Their answers—from John the Baptist to Elijah or one of the prophets—reveal how his followers...
Eight sets of young, eager eyes gaze up at Carol Ruddell. The Utah Sunday school teacher is about to dive into a lesson on the Eucharist. She clears her throat...
Childbirth on television is not, shall we say, precisely accurate. Hollywood seems to consider a new human being’s arrival on the planet to be utterly lacking...
When I was a junior in high school—a Catholic, all-girls school—I advanced to the regional round of the state science exposition. My parents drove me to...
Feminist is a loaded word. Some women, mostly white and many well into middle age, claim the label proudly. Younger women are apt to shrug it off. Women of...
I came to faith because of magnets. I was raised in a family that found no conflict between faith and science. It was only when I was older that I learned that...
Christ is the “forgiving victim,” says James Alison, a Catholic priest, theologian, and author. This idea stems from Alison’s Christian interpretation of...
“It is up to us to see God in those people who are suffering,” Pope Francis declared during one of his passionate homilies during the 15th World Youth Day...
