We weren’t in the market for a second church. But my 12-year-old daughter had started to notice that, in Catholic spaces, no one in the highest positions of...
Home Faith
Home Faith essays reflect on the spirituality of family life in a broad sense. Writers consider family across generations and in many different forms: siblings, grandparents, chosen family, household communities, etc. Each essay explores how faith and spirituality take root in these myriad relationships.
Each week, my parish priest encourages us to stop downstairs after Mass for coffee and donuts and to introduce ourselves to someone new—“No cheating!” he says...
I did a double take when Al Pacino’s face filled the projector screen during my undergraduate class on sacraments. Our professor, a Benedictine priest, wanted...
The negative feedback I remember most from childhood was that I had a “sharp tongue.” I wasn’t a backstabbing mean girl, but boy could I slice a person in half...
As a queer Catholic couple, my fiancée and I had wondered how God might want us to build a family. Then, as we were preparing for our wedding in early 2020...
My dad and I communicate largely through rock ’n’ roll. It’s easier than direct conversation. In my early teens, I discovered the riches of his generation’s...
Looking ahead to the new year in those final weeks of 2024, I found myself laying the groundwork for what became something of a family social experiment. With...
“It just doesn’t feel like a holiday without pasta,” my mother-in-law told us as she set a steaming bowl of tortellini onto the table in preparation for...
Pope Francis, in Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family), spoke of marriage as an encounter, a union, and a sacrament in which Christ himself meets the couple...
Each year for vacation, my husband and I go to a beach town called Ogunquit on the coast of Maine. It’s one of our favorite places to visit. We stay at a hotel...
