By W. Merle Longwood et al (Wipf & Stock, 2011) A primary stated goal of Forging the Male Spirit: The Spiritual Lives of American College Men is to answer...
Articles
The Coup (Epitaph, 2012) First, a warning: The lyrics on this album feature the usual hip-hop profanity, and there is no edited version. For many that is...
Of all the body parts I didn’t expect my busted knee to affect, it was my eyes. But I’m here to tell you that the first thing that changes when you’re hobbling...
The easy answer to that question is, we, the church, did. The feasts and seasons of the liturgical year all developed from the church’s desire to remember...
You won’t find the phrase “original sin” in the Bible. The story of humanity’s “fall” in Genesis 1 doesn’t use the term, and St. Paul, one of the church’s...
Kathy Barkdull started her career in parish ministry the same way many others have: The director of religious education at her parish tapped her on the...
Our understanding of priests, bishops, and deacons has changed dramatically in the church’s long history, says historian Gary Macy. In this web-only...
If necessity is the mother of invention, it’s fair to say that American Catholic school students in the early 20th century were, in a way, the mothers of...
For Rosa Manriquez, it was the Catholic school’s father-daughter dance. For Wendy Diez, it was the e-mail from the preschool teacher addressed to “Mr. and Mrs...
Scandal By Angela Senander (Liturgical Press, 2012) If asked to reflect on the word scandal, most Catholics would immediately think of the clerical sexual...
