When poor diets caused too many early deaths in an urban community, a solution came from an unlikely source—the local mortician. As a 61-year-old mortician...
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Despite a few stellar examples, many parishes have a long way to go to make sure all people can literally get in the door. Jane Bittle is an active leader at...
U.S. Catholic readers unwrap the things they love—and dread—about the Christmas season. Christmas, as the old song goes, can be “the most wonderful time...
By Judith Valente (Sorin Books, 2013) As is the case for so many Catholics today, Judith Valente’s faith had been chipped away by the clergy sexual abuse...
I’ve never liked Norman Rockwell. It is not because of his artistic abilities that I do not like him, but because of his subject matter. I am particularly...
“We’ve gotten away from the real meaning of food, and the power of food,” Michael Pollan told us in a December 2013 interview. The famous food author has...
By getting to know people with disabilities, we can learn to value all as part of the human family. In a June 11 audio message to the Italian Association for...
The only child often gets a bad rap. Stereotyped as entitled and self-important, people who grow up without siblings aren’t always looked upon...
By Bishop John McCarthy (Greenhills Publishing, 2013) Bishop John McCarthy pastored the Diocese of Austin, Texas from 1986 to 2001. After serving as executive...
Here are some interesting new book releases for December: December 2013 Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair By Anne Lamott From the New York...
