“I can’t do this because I’m an atheist.” “I can’t do this because I’m Christian, not Catholic.” “I can’t do this because I don’t know what I believe.” These...
Theology
The saying that “laughter is the best medicine” is not without wisdom. Laughter, goodness, beauty, and healing often go together. Yet, we Catholics rarely seem...
Like many Americans, I have followed the investigation of the events surrounding the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Listening to...
As Catholics, we can still get the ascension and the assumption mixed up. Just to clear up any confusion, these refer to the ascension of Jesus and the...
When Marcia Lane-McGee worked as a Catholic youth minister in Indiana, she found that one topic inevitably tripped up the young people—especially the girls—in...
In 1968, teaching a fourth-grade religion class in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, Father Edward J. Ruetz pinned a $20 bill above the chalkboard and told the...
Christmas celebrates a love so amazing it is beyond imagination and words. But what can this feast tell us about who the Catholic faith community is called to...
Prior to my work in the peace and justice arena, I focused much of my academic attention on moral psychology, which attends to the emotional and psychological...
The first two things I’d teach my kids about God come from Hosea’s sandwich board. This prophet began his career with loud condemnation. His first sandwich...
St. Pope John Paul II defines intrinsic evil in his 1993 encyclical, Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of the Truth), which addresses the church’s moral...
