We shouldn’t get hung up on the details surrounding Jesus’ birth, says this Bible scholar. As with any scripture story, there’s more here...
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The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon. Celebrating the opening of the archives...
To understand Our Lady of Guadalupe–the powerful story of the 16th-century apparition of Mary to the Indian Juan Diego outside what is now Mexico...
With so many lay ecclesial ministers and directors of religious education out there, many of whom are women, why would a bishop “need” a woman as a deacon? If...
In the late 1980s, when Robert Orsi had just begun his work studying devotion to St. Jude, he had dinner with a prominent liturgist who had spent years...
For his book, Thank You, St. Jude, Robert Orsi researched devotion to St. Jude, patron of difficult or hopeless causes, which has been fostered by the...
Few have written authoritative biographies of the 20th-century spiritual giants Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker, and Thomas Merton, the...
The editors interview Jim Forest, biographer and friend of Dorothy Day–and a former Catholic Worker himself, about Dorothy Day’s abortion...
What you put on your plate says something about the kind of person you are, says this Catholic gourmet chef and reality TV star. Kevin Gillespie comes from a...
Maryann Cusimano Love knew that it was only a matter of time before terrorists would hit the United States, but it was a dead car battery that kept her out of...