Social media is great for keeping in touch, but some moments are more meaningful when experienced offline. This summer I became well acquainted with the value...
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A little more than a year into his papacy, Pope Francis seems to be speaking loudest about economic injustice, alternatively denouncing “trickle-down”...
Let’s stop big corporations from playing hunger games with our food production. As summer fades into true autumn this month, World Food Day (October 16)...
Joe Henry (Work Song, 2014) Joe Henry may always be thought of as the T Bone Burnett of his generation. After all, his career began when the legendary producer...
October brings crisper days. Here are our October picks for interesting new book releases. So wrap yourself up in a blanket, grab a cup of tea, and go sit on...
As a child, Laura Anthony visited her grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s, every weekend after Mass. “As a kid I never knew what to talk about,” she says. “It was...
What began with giving a doll the sacrament of the sick ended up as a real-life lesson. At the end of each school day, my first-grade students loved to play a...
A woman I know quit her job as an administrator in student life at a Catholic university because she could no longer stomach what the church had to say about...
Directed by Phillip Noyce (The Weinstein Company, 2014) It is difficult to explain why a film fails where a book succeeds. Often it is because our imaginations...
In October 2014, the presidents of the bishops’ conferences from around the world would meet up at the Vatican for the first round of the synod on marriage and...
