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...
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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...
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...
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...
South African Muslim scholar Farid Esack speaks about post-9/11 perceptions of Islam in this interview from January 2002. In the aftermath of September 11...
This interview from the December 2001 issue explores responses from two Catholics to the beginning of the War on Terror in Afghanistan. Just as government...
Sister Rose Pacatte, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul who directs the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, talks about television being more...
