My son Quentin died by suicide on April 26, 2020. Every Catholic parish has people like me who bear the sorrow of suicide loss, as well as those whose loved...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
The rain stopped for no one in Chicagoland this summer, Pope Leo XIV included. On August 11, rolling walls of dark clouds loomed from all directions under an...
In 2021, Hurricane Ida knocked out eight transmission lines and 31,000 utility poles in Louisiana. This left 1 million people without power, with some outages...
As the holiday season once again approaches, you can already almost see the cheeriness in the air (and the Halloween decorations filling up your grocery store...
Mike Huck of Naperville, Illinois, has a favorite technique to explain the politics of hunger. When addressing Catholic groups, he will place nine grocery bags...
We weren’t in the market for a second church. But my 12-year-old daughter had started to notice that, in Catholic spaces, no one in the highest positions of...
Ruben Botali Kimbulu never imagined himself working for the church. An immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he enrolled at Loras College, a...
In my bedroom, I have a bag filled to the brim with socks that have seen better days. Some have pilled fabric, while others are speckled with rips and holes in...
Each week, my parish priest encourages us to stop downstairs after Mass for coffee and donuts and to introduce ourselves to someone new—“No cheating!” he says...
