By Timothy Matovina (Princeton University Press, 2012) Thirty-one years ago a Fides/Claretian book from the publishers who bring you this magazine chronicled...
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I don’t usually think of Jesus’ crucifixion when passing the sweets table, but there it was: A big rich dark chocolate cake adorned with white...
Directed by Asghar Farhadi (Sony Pictures, 2011) We all tell stories, and we all believe our stories are true. But the small gaps between our stories and the...
Mattel and Abercrombie sell sexiness even to 6-year-olds. Enter those who are fighting back to let girls be girls. At a recent wedding Becky Groth was amazed...
April 2012: Simple Faith: Moving Beyond Religion As You Know It to Grow in Your Relationship with God By Margaret Silf Review: As we mature through life, all...
When you’re on chemo, the Stations of the Cross take on a whole new meaning. Growing up Catholic in the 1970s, I remember the older women in our parish...
A Polish Catholic would be a basket case without this annual blessing of Easter goodies. My mother is 100 percent polish (with a maiden name ending in “...
By grieving with the Blessed Mother, we comfort all mothers who mourn. In my hometown of San José de Gracia in Jalisco, Mexico, church celebrations...
When the church gathers on the night of Holy Thursday, its business is to leave the 40 days of Lent and enter the Triduum, the three days at the heart of the...
Those of us in our 60s and beyond remember something like this from our youthful Good Fridays: After what seemed like an eternity of Latin readings (mostly...
