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...
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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...
Directed by Michael McGowan (Samuel Goldwyn, 2013) In Michael McGowan’s touching love story about an aging married couple, Craig and Irene Morrison...
What is the cost of being poor in America? Researchers have long known that because of a broad reduction in retail and other consumer choices experienced by...
