“A whirlwind season in our lives” are the words writer, wife, mother, and blogger Lisa Kirk used to describe December 2017. Living far from relatives, she and...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
Headmaster and Benedictine Father Edwin Leahy knew he was home when he walked through the doors of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New...
About a mile off I-74 in southeast Indiana between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, nestled among rolling green fields populated by a few contented grazing cows...
I have been blessed to be present at Masses where excellent women preachers gave homilies. Their examples and my experience of the difference that a...
The sound of sirens and flashing lights woke Claretian Father John Molyneux, pastor of the Mission San Gabriel parish, around 4:30 a.m. on July 11, when...
Political commentator Glenn Beck famously stated, “I beg you, look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church website. If you find [them]...
When I was growing up in the pre-Second Vatican Council Catholic Church, the rules of financial transparency in parishes were straightforward: There were none...
In the not too distant past, the sexual abuse of children was not seen for the terrible, unacceptable thing that it is. Often when it happened, not only in our...
Barbara Dane loves middle schoolers. She’s been working with adolescents in a youth ministry capacity for more than 20 years. Before that, she taught seventh...
As U.S. Catholics become ever more diverse, so too are Catholic parishes. The result, says professor Brett Hoover, who teaches theology at Loyola Marymount...
