Do you ever feel like you’re “accomplishing Christmas” rather than savoring Christmas? Ironically, in this season designed to celebrate and enjoy God-with-us...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
In September 2022, my wife and I started trying to have a baby. We were sure that we would be pregnant within a few months, and have a child within the year...
Advent is God’s invitation to be a witness. We are invited to the manger to await the most tender miracle of all: to see with our own eyes, hear with our own...
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...
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...
