These Lenten practices can help your spirituality to blossom this year. Have you lost track of Lent in recent years? Has it lost substance and grit? Here are a...
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When you listened to some older Catholics talk about the spirituality that formed them, you hear a lot about a harsh, demanding, and rather unforgiving...
Lent is a good time to call time-out on our First World feeding frenzy. "Eat the world” is the slogan of the food court at a high-end Magnificent...
When my mother was a girl, she lost a ring that meant a lot to her. Given that she was a very devout child, she did what any right-thinking Italian American in...
Few writers of the past century have had as big an impact on so many people as Thomas Merton (1915-1968). His readers ranged from popes to high school...
Directed by David Fincher (Paramount Pictures, 2008) David Fincher’s movie version of a farcical short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the backwards...
Jay Bennett (rockproper.com, 2008) Back in the late 1990s, Wilco was the great American rock band, and Jay Bennett was one of its key members. Today Wilco is...
By Cathleen Falsani (Zondervan, 2008)As a journalist covering my own faith, I often question my “objectivity.” Can I report on the...
Stephanie Garza, a young new leader in the church, creates leaders out of Chicago moms. The daughter of a Mexican-American mother and immigrant father...
The growing Kenyan church responds to the challenges of a young democracy. “Our mother, Kenya, we love you so much; we need you again,” sing the...
