Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire Directed by Lee Daniels (Lionsgate, 2009) Black is beautiful. Black, obese, poor, functionally illiterate...
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So your son graduated from college, can’t find a job, and needs a place to live—what’s a parent to do? The first time Mark Bolich Jr. stayed...
With more adult children moving back home with their parents due to the economy, experts agree: Establish guidelines in advance to avoid arguments down the...
Field of Compassion By Judy Cannato (Sorin Books, 2010) I'm no Albert Einstein. Science is just not my thing. Even Ira Flatow (of NPR's "Science...
Tips and suggestions for parishes planning to prioritize the environment. 1. Schedule a Bike- or Walk-to-Church Sunday. 2. Offer pitchers of water instead of...
Five reasons Catholic communities should care about cleaning up the environment. 1. You don’t have to believe in climate change to believe in its...
Parishes are finding that reducing their carbon footprint is not only an environmental issue but a spiritual one, too. Parishioners at Mary Immaculate Church...
A Franciscan environmental activist recycles some ancient traditions for modern use. [Read more about St. Francis, patron of ecology.] Hundreds of years before...
On Aug. 6, 1976 Dorothy Day was invited to address the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia. The date of her talk was, of course, the Feast of the...
You have spoken out strongly in favor of canonizing Dorothy Day. How is she a saint for today? Dorothy herself had a tremendous veneration for the saints. Her...
