The Catholic Church is renowned for slow processes, long lead times, and predictable rhythms that play out over decades and even centuries. One quip is that...
In the Pews
The priest, robed in red, processes down the aisle to the church entrance and removes his mask—though he won’t be speaking. An assistant presider holds open a...
Recent events, including the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the decision of a few bishops to bar prominent politicians from...
College student Maria Dominguez juggled a lot during her junior year as a political science major at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. In...
If you’ve never attended a Latin Mass before, just know that no one is going to tell you what’s going on. Most likely, no one will talk to you at all—though...
Years ago, I noticed an unexpected phenomenon. I had recently moved to New York, and on my afternoon rush hour commute I saw people eating as they rode in the...
It was finally confirmation day for our teens. As I approached the first teenager, I could see on his nametag the saint’s name he had chosen for his own...
When the Archdiocese of Chicago launched its Renew My Church campaign for diocesan renewal in 2016, the diocese reminded Chicago Catholics: God’s desire for...
Father Matthew Schneider had a “pretty normal Catholic upbringing,” he says. His family went to Mass on Sundays, he attended Catholic school, and he was an...
When Jesuit Father James Martin speaks to groups of college students, he often imitates a presider at Mass droning the Alleluia in a dull monotone, as if he...
