“When I was in Germany in September of 2010,” says Robert Wicks, “I was giving a talk to chaplains who had been working with the military in Afghanistan...
Vocations
Last year, with the creation of the personal ordinariate for Anglicans, more people became aware of the presence of married clergy in the Catholic Church. Long...
Defying the current scapegoating and stereotypes, a priest shares his journey and struggle. My Roman collar caused Mrs. H to hesitate. She knew I was gay, but...
Recently my friend Angela called me in tears. Angela, 31, and her husband have been married for three years, and they are very well-suited: They can spend...
Some professionals are quitting their day jobs and stepping up to a new spiritual calling. If someone had told Barbara Evans a decade ago that she’d be working...
Those who enter lay ecclesial formation programs do so for a variety of reasons, but not usually because they expect to find a job with a whopping paycheck at...
The issue of women priests may be a settled matter, but that doesn’t mean a woman can’t serve the church as a deacon. Celebrating the opening of the archives...
With so many lay ecclesial ministers and directors of religious education out there, many of whom are women, why would a bishop “need” a woman as a deacon? If...
The Catholic Worker movement is living proof that charity begins at home. Catholic Worker member Liz La Plante and I started our conversation alone in the...
When U.S. Catholic readers punch the clock, they don't forget that they are still on God's time, according to a Reader Survey in honor of Labor Day...
