The value of a faith community can’t be crunched on a balance sheet. Thirteen in Miami, 52 in Cleveland, 33 in Albany, New York. No, these aren’t...
Parish life
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on parish life that highlight community building, inclusion, and justice in everyday Catholic ministry.
The St. Francis de Sales Parish Book Club meets in the basement room in the rectory where Father Matthias used to run the parish weight-lifting club, until he...
Lord knows these organizations need some help serving their communities. OK, children, gather around. I'll tell you what life was like before parish...
The Earth is warming and we are responsible. This is the undeniable conclusion reached by 2,000 scientists and policy experts contributing to the United...
If the pastor had not stepped down, the church embezzlement might have continued indefinitely. But when Father Brian Lisowski, pastor of St. Bede the...
Catholics need to lighten up and see the bright side of sometimes being the butt of jokes. It wouldn’t hurt to laugh at ourselves once in a...
Sean Reynolds cheerfully agreed to torpedo tired old thinking at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis last November. The symposium, dreamed up by...
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 studied...
Steven Saitabau was one of 23 that were baptized in one Kenyan parish the first weekend of October 2008. Nine years old, he had lived half is life without a...
