When the church gets you down, you can always serve the poor. I met Sister Maura on my first night working in an overnight shelter on Chicago’s Southwest Side...
Articles
July 2012: The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing your creative soul with monastic wisdom By Christine Valters Paintner Review: Unlike other books promising to...
Kym knows exactly what broke feels like. A few months ago she was out of work and low on hope. When it looked as though she and her two children would be...
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s “seamless garment of life” analogy is well known—and often criticized—for arguing that Catholic social teachings should be applied...
There is a wealth of opportunity for Catholics looking to put their money where their faith is. Ray Boshara fondly remembers his grandmother washing and re...
The Liturgy of the Hours is a small but bulky and intimidating-looking red-bound prayer book with lots of confusing multicolored ribbons. It is that, but of...
Marley: The Original Soundtrack Bob Marley and the Wailers (Tuff Gong, 2012) Bob Marley, who took reggae music from Jamaica to the world, is one of the pop...
After life on the street, there’s nothing like sitting down again at your own kitchen table. “I never in my life thought that at age 50 I’d be homeless, not in...
The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? By Annibale Fantoli (Notre Dame Press, 2012) Annibale Fantoli’s The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? opens where...
When We Were the Kennedys By Monica Wood (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) Monica Wood writes that her book When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico...
