A priest’s alcoholism becomes the parish’s affliction, too. Every week or so, Father Ray toted a suitcase past the rectory offices. “Dry cleaning,” he’d say...
Health and wellness
Fifty years after the game-changing Second Vatican Council a new generation helps the church respond to today’s signs of the times. Father Benezet Bujo...
Banning the Big Gulp isn’t enough to tip the scales in America’s obesity epidemic. Gluttony is the only one of the not-so-magnificent seven that is literally a...
When you’re on chemo, the Stations of the Cross take on a whole new meaning. Growing up Catholic in the 1970s, I remember the older women in our parish...
Grace follows us around, but sometimes we have to get into the right position to receive it. In the poet Chaucer’s day—that is, 14th-century England—April came...
At about mile 22 I practically forgot the reason I was running—or at this point barely jogging—my second marathon in as many years. My feet were screaming at...
It was a cold, winter day when one of Mary Lou Aiello's most memorable clients walked into the Care Center, five months pregnant and with only a thin...
"Achoo!" "God bless you." One of the legends behind saying "God bless you" originates in the belief that a person's heart...
The pope’s stance on health care may be hard pill to swallow for opponents of reform. More than 100 million people a year across the world are driven into...
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...
