Eating fish on Fridays, especially during Lent, is a well-known Catholic tradition that has been practiced for centuries. The custom takes different forms from...
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Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The idea of life–especially intelligent life–on other planets has long captured the contemporary imagination. Despite the...
A common misunderstanding about Catholicism is that the church has preset answers to every possible moral or theological question, and that discussion about...
Beads and booze. Food and fats. Dancing and drinking. Pleasures and pączki. OK. The last one is more of a Chicago thing. Pączki are Polish pastries enjoyed by...
Growing up, I assumed that the Catholic Church taught that people who were not Christian could not go to heaven. That view never sat well with me, so it was a...
What do you bring to a baby shower? Your relationship to the child or their parents may influence the decision. If it’s a coworker’s kid, likely you buy a cute...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Catholics often have to explain to their Protestant friends that no, we don’t worship Mary. We do venerate her, though...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Most people in the United States probably remember learning the story of the first Thanksgiving back in elementary school...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify For the first few centuries of the church, Christians were pacifists. Jesus’ teachings about turning the other cheek...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify When we talk about the global history of Catholicism, we may be tempted to portray the church as the unequivocal moral hero...
