For Rosa Manriquez, it was the Catholic school’s father-daughter dance. For Wendy Diez, it was the e-mail from the preschool teacher addressed to “Mr. and Mrs...
Author - Heidi Schlumpf
While not all single mothers are financially strapped, the poverty rate for families headed by single mothers, at 42 percent, is almost three times the rate...
Of the many diversions tempting me to miss Sunday Mass, perhaps the greatest is the Sunday morning talk shows. As a self-confessed political junkie, I have...
It’s almost as if Mel Gibson’s The Passion has come to life. In Chicago’s largely Hispanic Pilsen neighborhood, some 7,000 people gather at...
Between Heaven and Mirth By James Martin, SJ (HarperOne, 2011) Perhaps I am not the best person to review this book. Although not completely humorless, I have...
The church requires two miracles before a person can be canonized. Why? A Catholic friar on a plane that made a dramatic emergency landing in Poland last fall...
Of the four wedding invitations currently posted on my refrigerator, only one is for a ceremony to be held in a church. The others? All will be outdoors: in a...
A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, U.S. CATHOLIC readers share their memories, regrets, concerns, and hopes. When Mary Ellen Kelly heard that a plane...
The angelic little tot, so cute in her Sunday best, is letting out some not-so-cute cries from the pew behind you. Do you: a) smile sweetly to yourself...
Why Stay Catholic? By Michael Leach (Loyola Press, 2011) A few years ago a Catholic publisher asked Michael Leach to write a book on “101 reasons to be...
