Young adults

Mothers’ helper

Stephanie Garza, a young new leader in the church, creates leaders out of Chicago moms. The daughter of a Mexican-American mother and immigrant father...

Recovering Catholics

We can learn a lot from people who left the church, whether we can win them back or not. For generations, the Baltimore Catechism taught that Catholics who...

Pray your own way

These aren't your grandma's devotions. Young adult Catholics are using non-traditional ways to get in touch with their spiritual side. It's 11 p.m...

Mom dad I’m gay

Mary Ellen and Casey Lopata's lives changed drastically during Thanksgiving weekend 1983. That's when their oldest son, Jim, came home from...

My teenagers are a constant revelation

Anyone who survives the dentist's drill should be able to pass this acid test. As I sit terrified in a car crammed with 15-year-old boys, my own at the...