The U.S. Catholic Church today is undergoing profound cultural, social, and leadership transitions. It’s at the parish level that conflicts arise and new...
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The most vibrant parishes focus as much on ministry to the poor as they do on ministry in the liturgy, says the founder of JustFaith Ministries. In 1988 Jack...
A little counseling might help get the Israel-U.S. partnership back on track. Every relationship can have its rocky patches. Plenty of marriages that have...
The sex abuse crisis should teach us that it takes more than a seminary to raise a priest. In the spring of my first year of college, I wrote my bishop and...
Every doctrine or practice familiar to Catholics has a history of its own, and some official expressions of church teaching are quite recent, such as the...
Adults could learn a thing or two if only they listened more when young people of different faiths get together to talk. One recent Monday morning a Catholic...
"It's a zoo," sighs Father Donald B. Cozzens, who had been hoping for a quiet sabbatical to finish writing his next book. Instead, the...
Making it through the dark night of the priest pedophilia crisis and arriving at truth and reconciliation requires an unflinching examination of our...
Preventing child sexual abuse begins with talking to your children about it. Dolores Curran provides some strategies to help. This formerly confident and...
Then head of the National Review Board, Frank Keating shared his view of the church's response to the sex abuse crisis with U.S. Catholic in 2003...
