Despite a few stellar examples, many parishes have a long way to go to make sure all people can literally get in the door. Jane Bittle is an active leader at...
Disabilities
By getting to know people with disabilities, we can learn to value all as part of the human family. In a June 11 audio message to the Italian Association for...
Like many other lifelong Catholics, Danny Benavidez, a member of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Chula Vista, California, helps out at his parish in a number of...
With the church at a crossroads, Catholics look to Pope Francis for guidance. Jean Vanier gives the new pope advice on reaching out to the least among us. A...
Are our ethics keeping pace with the current genetic revolution? Fifty years ago, when geneticist James Watson and physicist Francis Crick uncovered the...
Not long after Rich Salazar moved to DeKalb, Illinois from California, he found himself knocking at the door of St. Mary’s Church. The then-college...
Struggling with mental illness? Sister Kathryn James Hermes, author of Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach (Pauline Books & Media), offers some...
We were nervous walking into the new parish for the first time. My husband and I settled our three children into a pew near the rear for a quick escape if we...
Having a child with special needs can test one’s faith in God and in the parish community. As a theologian Mary Beth Walsh of Maplewood, New Jersey had...
I’m coming to believe that the ultimate goal of this conversion is not to muscle our way to changed behaviors, but rather to loosen up enough to change...
