Rather than threaten our Christian faith, exploring the language and spiritual practices of other religious traditions may instead make us better Catholics...
The Examined Life
Discover The Examined Life columns, highlighting the intersections between contemplation, lived faith, and social justice in daily life.
The diverse challenges of a struggling world need local solutions from a flexible church. Among the theologians of the Second Vatican Council, the name of...
Despite terror that women are staging a coup de church, the numbers just don't add up. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to church, a new menace...
Our color in the Crayola box of "flesh tones" shouldn't determine our place in the church. Corporate reorganizations have become so common that...
The first (and most ignored) rule of preaching the gospel: "Know your audience." A friend's birthday party occasioned one of the odder questions...
Instead of shooting rhetorical spitballs in the other's general direction, boosters of both science and religion should start sharing a desk. In the...
Millions have headed for the exits without getting the best of what we have to offer. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior...
On the seventh centenary on the birth of St. Bridget of Sweden, the pope sent a message to St. Bridget’s Order of the Most Holy Savior, praising its foundress...
