Catholics fed on the church’s social teaching won’t like the taste of what the Tea Party is serving. Editors’ Note: Sounding Boards are one...
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By Eamon Duffy (Yale University Press, 2011) Quick, can you name 10 popes off the top of your head? OK, maybe you can, but how about explaining the difference...
Everyone knows that, with a few exceptions, Catholic priests are celibate. But can Catholic deacons marry? Married men have been admitted to the clergy of the...
By Brian Doyle (ACTA Publications, 2011) Brian Doyle must have been listening intently when poet Mary Oliver proclaimed, “Attentiveness is the beginning of all...
The kids in the Catholic seventh grade classroom—Hispanics, Filipinos, African Americans, and my own Irish American offspring—took on a project to highlight...
Chuck Prophet (Yep Roc, 2012) Chuck Prophet has been known in the alt-rock world since the mid-1980s when he signed on as chief guitar-slinger for a great alt...
In the wake of a harsh new immigration law, the popular devotions of a small Alabama parish mirror the new fears and hardships of its members. Last December’s...
“I believe in an America where… there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote,” declared John F. Kennedy. But today some wonder whether U...
There is room in the church for all human beings, no matter which way your sexuality tilts. Rome is an amazing city. I lived there as a college student years...
How one community struggles with the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policies. Last fall, when he put on his scout uniform for the first time after the summer break...
