When my mother was a girl, she lost a ring that meant a lot to her. Given that she was a very devout child, she did what any right-thinking Italian American in...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Few writers of the past century have had as big an impact on so many people as Thomas Merton (1915-1968). His readers ranged from popes to high school...
Stephanie Garza, a young new leader in the church, creates leaders out of Chicago moms. The daughter of a Mexican-American mother and immigrant father...
“Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin...
Catholics ought to be loud and proud in the fight for women’s rights, argues a young feminist. I still remember the first time I heard a friend utter the...
Five minutes before my children go to bed, I am not feeling very holy. They are tired and I am exhausted. There are blue globs of toothpaste in the sink basin...
“Listen! I am standing at the door knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to you and eat with you, and you with me...
The Christmas my daughter was 6 and my son was 3 was probably the low point. Not that it lacked anything, you understand. Quite the contrary. There were...
We Christians believe that this child is the hope seeded deep in the psyche of all those who waited for the day of the Lord in Judaism, though they still wait...
Advent is the liturgical season of vigilance or, to put it more mundanely, of waiting. During the four weeks prior to Christmas, we light the candles of our...
