Jennifer Houston McNeel is an author and professor at St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland For many of us, when we think of mothers in the...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Pope Francis, in Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family), spoke of marriage as an encounter, a union, and a sacrament in which Christ himself meets the couple...
A time traveler to Europe’s Early Middle Ages might be startled by what they found if they landed there in mid-December. No jolly good cheer, no feasts, no...
What does it mean to be Black and Catholic? It means that I come to my church fully functioning; that doesn’t frighten you, does it? It means that… I bring...
A Bible verse that lodged itself in my adolescent mind was Romans 9:13, a passage in which Paul references the book of Malachi: “As it is written, ‘I [God]...
On July 6, 1535, Sir Thomas More climbed a rickety scaffold to his death. He had believed his friendship with King Henry VIII would protect him from the...
Each year for vacation, my husband and I go to a beach town called Ogunquit on the coast of Maine. It’s one of our favorite places to visit. We stay at a hotel...
There is some news that no one wants to hear. But as renowned writer Joan Didion observed in her 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking (Knopf Doubleday)...
In Laudato Si’ (On Care for Our Common Home), Pope Francis explicitly evoked the Christo-cosmic vision of the French Jesuit paleontologist and theologian...
