On their walls Jonah emerges from the whale after three days: this sea scene—not the cross— is the sign of the Resurrection. The three Wise Men— first Gentiles...
Author - Jeannine M. Pitas
There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday)...
A nation with crumbling infrastructure and climate change-induced natural disasters. Civil unrest and violence fueled by a growing gap between the rich and the...
When I sat down to watch Jon Chu’s film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz’s smash-hit musical Wicked, I expected to be captivated—and I was. Having seen the...
Politics can be exhausting and indeed discouraging. A few weeks ago, when I asked my 18-year-old freshmen students if they’d registered to vote, half of them...
When she was young, Kay Perdue Meadows never imagined she’d grow up to be a catechist. She also never imagined she’d grow up to be a Catholic. A convert to the...
As a history student at the University of Iowa, Evan Hudson did not expect his recreational experimentation with opioids to have long-term consequences. But...
In 2011, at age 27, I experienced a crisis of faith. The man I loved and hoped to marry—a very scientifically-minded software engineer—joined a group of other...
Dorina Pena describes herself as a “church lady supreme.” A founding member of the young adult ministry at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Philadelphia, 38-year...
