The National (4AD, 2013) The National’s latest album, Trouble Will Find Me, is an unabashedly brilliant collection of 13 songs that could easily be the...
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Save the beach for the honeymoon. Instead, get married at your local parish. Sounding Boards are one person’s take on a many-sided subject and do not...
Who says that all the top positions in the church need to go to priests and bishops? The parish I grew up in, like many Catholic churches before it, had two...
c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) In November of 1963, C. S. “Jack” Lewis knew he was dying. The Irish-born literary scholar...
Mobile, Alabama in autumn feels mutable, sunshine floating down on its filigreed iron railings and azalea gardens, then, suddenly, dispiritingly humid. It’s...
What do a time-traveling alien and the influential church council have in common? More than you might think. Fifty years ago, under the loving guidance of Pope...
By Archbishop Jose H. Gomez (Our Sunday Visitor, 2013) As chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez...
After spending 20 years meditating on a number of visions, Julian of Norwich developed a deep understanding of God and produced her famous work, Revelations of...
Prayer can be mysterious—in particular, other people’s prayer can be mysterious. In our November issue, we went ahead and asked six brave souls to reveal the...
When Father William Meninger left his post in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington in 1963 to join the Trappists at St. Joseph Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, he...
