New parents often describe childbirth and their part in procreation in religious, almost mystical, terms. It’s a “miracle,”...
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Sometimes the best place to talk to Catholic baby boomer men about spirituality is far removed from the quiet of a church sanctuary. Kevin Bartels of Queens...
Few human activities are more basic than walking, and few more taken for granted. You need to watch an infant to be reminded that walking is a hard-won...
Caryll Houselander became a significant spiritual mentor for me in my 20s, when I found her book The Reed of God, about Mary and Christ. After that I read...
It was a warm weekend in May when my wife asked me to stop the car in the middle of the road in Naples, Ney York. “St. Januarius!” she said excitedly pointing...
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes upon your...
Harry Potter and his lessons on “defense against the dark arts” have nothing on our defender, St. Michael the Archangel. For me, Michael almost got lost in the...
In early December, just after the film version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe opened, my daughter Sophie’s second-grade teacher organized and...
The coffee mug on sale in the gift shop said it all: “Do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa. For $5.95 plus tax I could hold the key to a holy life...
When my Uncle Joe died a few years ago, his Pentecostal sisters from northeastern Tennessee insisted that the casket remain open during the service, despite...
