Sometimes grace breaks through when you break a pattern or, in workplace parlance, when you “pivot.” In 2015, the nonprofit I worked for “pivoted” from funding...
In the Pews
My father was seriously ill several times in his last years of life. He could have received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick when facing surgery for...
The evil of clericalism, explains Pope Francis in a December 2016 sermon, happens whenever clerics distance themselves from laypeople, especially those who are...
Dorina Pena describes herself as a “church lady supreme.” A founding member of the young adult ministry at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Philadelphia, 38-year...
My mother didn’t want to homeschool us, but my father insisted. When she resisted, he manipulated her into continuing. I pondered this while I read an article...
Although vocations to the priesthood continue to decline in the Catholic Church, Augustinian Father Anthony Pizzo balks at referring to this phenomenon as the...
Five of my nine pregnancies were the result of trying to use NFP (natural family planning) with a man who became drunk and abusive towards me and the children...
My husband and I completely understood why our first marriage prep session went awry: The gentleman in charge wasn’t prepared to conduct the activities without...
Robert Harris is a 33-year-old Black, queer Catholic in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He came to Catholicism at 14, around the time he began developing an awareness of...
Given its name, it seems only natural that cryptocurrency and the suite of other blockchain-based technologies associated with it would have an enduringly...
