I love my Christmas dinnerware. For the past 20 years I’ve served many wonderful feasts on it. Family and friends have gathered around my festive green and red...
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Let’s not only be green when summer’s here but also during the most wonderful time of the year. The anticipation was over, the gifts all opened...
Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors...
For 16 years I prayed them with my entire family before Christmas. I prayed them as a teenager, for the repose of the soul of parents of friends; I prayed them...
We’ve all seen the Hallmark version: the loving, happy, laughing family gathered around the Christmas tree. Then there’s real life. Father John...
Here's the intel: This war, evidently, is being fought on two fronts. First, the pious pundits of fair and balanced cable TV news have determined that...
Church teaching on gay and lesbian people must reflect their dignity as God’s daughters and sons. Homosexuality has claimed the job of another employee...
How to Go From a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in 95 Difficult Steps By Christian Smith (Cascade Books, 2011) Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 book The Structure...
Comfort By Brett C. Hoover (Riverhead Books, 2011) Don’t let the fuzzy slippers on the cover fool you: Brett C. Hoover’s book Comfort: An Atlas for the Body...
The translators of the new Mass prayers have neglected one cardinal rule: Consider your audience. As the days dwindled before their triumphal entry, the new...
