Our first outing as a family of five, the day after we brought our youngest home from the hospital, was to the local WIC and Social Services office. Despite...
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When my child started at a Montessori school last fall, my husband and I giggled at some of the rules they expected toddlers between the ages of 18 months and...
“They say we are trash people. White trash.” So begins the new book Trash: A Poor White Journey (Broadleaf), written by Cedar Monroe. “It’s a fraught title...
Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a...
Readings (Year B): Acts 1:1-11Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Eph 1:17-23Mk 16:15-20 Reflection: Seek Jesus in everyday places When I was a child, on a lazy sunny day, I...
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). On Palm Sunday in 1942, a traumatized Jewish child knocked on the...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify Some of the most popular and well-known Catholic pilgrimage sites are places where Mary the Mother of Jesus is believed to have...
There’s probably no more “post-Christian” place on Earth than contemporary Scandinavia. According to the Pew Foundation, only 7 percent of Norwegians say they...
Being Catholic used to mean going to church. That’s what Catholics did before the Second Vatican Council, and we did it a lot. Then came Vatican II...
The grief around weaning all four of my children still echoes in my heart to this day. To know that perhaps never again will my body be capable of giving life...
