The editors interview Father Robert Barron. "For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father...
Expert Witness
Robert Silva, a pastor and spiritual director who has taught at the University of the Pacific and the Catholic University of America, talks about how his...
Having taught in and studied seminaries for 20 years, Katarina Schuth sizes up the changes in today's seminaries and the men they are forming for the...
On March 5, 2009, Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity and president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), which represents more than 600 Catholic...
A Franciscan environmental activist recycles some ancient traditions for modern use. [Read more about St. Francis, patron of ecology.] Hundreds of years before...
You have spoken out strongly in favor of canonizing Dorothy Day. How is she a saint for today? Dorothy herself had a tremendous veneration for the saints. Her...
Have you ever had a fist fight about the natures of Christ? If you have, you would fit right in among ancient Christians, says this church historian...
The current debates about God’s existence hardly lift us up to transcendence. Karen Armstrong shares a vision of faith that is less about proofs than practice...
If any scholar could claim a ring-side seat to the liturgical reform of the 20th century, it would have to be Father Robert Taft, S.J. Taft recalls being...
In late 1995 Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking forward to his retirement when South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela appointed him chairperson of the...
