“I don’t mind work. I do anything. I dig a trench for you. But we need help. It’s getting serious out here. Winter’s going to be here in a minute. I ain’t got...
Works of mercy
On one of the first evenings after our then foster (now adopted) daughter Teenasia came to live with us, second-grade Jacob was at the dining room table doing...
As Ebola patients began to die in Africa last summer, it was not difficult for me to revisit the memory of my first AIDS patient. His death hurled me into an...
The Catholic Church has long had a major role in providing care to the sick. But what does Catholic identity look like on the new frontiers of modern health...
Creating a culture of encounter requires more than just organizing drives. It might even mean learning a name or two. About 10 years ago, during a college...
As a child, Laura Anthony visited her grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s, every weekend after Mass. “As a kid I never knew what to talk about,” she says. “It was...
None of us want to think of the world going on without us. But if we plan wisely, we can help to leave it a better place for the next generation. For Charlie...
The tough and tender mercies of women religious transform the most remote and desolate corners of poverty, misery, and heartache. It takes nerves of steel to...
Even death cannot rob us of our fundamental dignity as human persons. -From the U.S. bishops' Reflections on the Body, Cremation, and Catholic Funeral...
The Christian influence has finally been felt at the highest levels of government. Policymakers and legislators have, at long last, studied the model that...
