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...
Author - Heidi Schlumpf
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...
How women who work for the church keep the faith It’s lunchtime at St. Clement Parish in Chicago, and although some of the city’s best restaurants are within...
Find or be a mentor. Ministry associations are great, but informal groups work, too. “I’ve really found a lot of support in the older women who have paved the...
What do Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, John Milton, and Galileo have in common? Required reading for university freshmen? Maybe. These esteemed...
Field of Compassion By Judy Cannato (Sorin Books, 2010) I'm no Albert Einstein. Science is just not my thing. Even Ira Flatow (of NPR's "Science...
If U.S. women religious need voices in their defense, U.S. Catholic readers are happy to testify. Not only do they sing the praises of sisters who have taught...