Who says that all the top positions in the church need to go to priests and bishops? The parish I grew up in, like many Catholic churches before it, had two...
The Examined Life
There’s something appropriate about turning 40 in a place where you might get eaten by a grizzly. The mountains don’t care about you,” says the forest ranger...
We lay off teachers and nurses while we hire for prisons, casinos, and fracking. This is progress? At least once a week in my daily newspaper I see a full page...
Pope Francis’ generous approach to atheists got the world talking—and we should be glad it did. One of the pleasures of Pope Francis’ honeymoon period as...
Oscar Romero, now back on the path to sainthood, was called to conversion by ordinary Salvadorans. Among the welcome news coming on the heels of Pope Francis’...
There has been a death in my family—two actually, or 60,000, depending on how you count. To be specific, neither of my two beehives survived the winter of...
Will Pope Francis listen to voices calling for change in the church? Media coverage of the election of Pope Francis has returned over and over to his humility...
Pope Benedict’s final act may be one of his best gifts to the church. So were you shocked, just shocked, when Pope Benedict XVI resigned back in February...
The religious landscape is shifting. Don’t hunker down—get creative. It was a story that could have appeared in any city newspaper: Historic old church faces...
Of all the body parts I didn’t expect my busted knee to affect, it was my eyes. But I’m here to tell you that the first thing that changes when you’re hobbling...
