Her attempt to resist sweets may have been futile, but an unexpected event taught Kathleen Hockey why we bother with Lent. Guest blog post by...
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An Appeals court panel ruled that Arizona cannot yet fully enforce the controversial immigration law SB1070, especially those features that directed law...
It’d be nice to think that reconciliation is between us and God, but sacrament is important to our Catholic faith. Guest blog post by Kevin Patrick...
Flashing across the screen on CNN last Tuesday at the Boston airport: "$500 million WIC." The ticker was rolling the line items of the $38 billion in...
Does the Guttmacher Institutes’s report that 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used some form of birth control surprise anyone? Well, it...
I believe when I first started writing about soup and bread for Lent, I suggested an orzo and pea soup for the second to last week. Having run out of garlic...
Events out of Japan persist in an irradiated gloom as another Earth Day approaches. But among energy policy wonks in the United States the refrain (perhaps...
Lent is a time to recover our connection to God's creation. In "Don't be crude," I suggested that those of us in developed nations have an...
I often say that the intellectual tradition of the church is what attracts me the most to the Catholic faith, and this tradition was on display in all its...
One of my favorite TV programs, The Good Wife, had a story last week of a middle-aged undocumented Mexican arrested as a suspect only because he was near the...
