When my Uncle Joe died a few years ago, his Pentecostal sisters from northeastern Tennessee insisted that the casket remain open during the service, despite...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
On the evening of March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador was shot and killed while celebrating Mass in the chapel on the grounds of...
On a Sunday afternoon in spring, in the fading light of a church sacristy, a friend told me he was going away for a few weeks. And he needed me to know why...
“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t go to yours,” said Yogi Berra. You have to admit Yogi had a point, in his inimitable fashion. My...
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on Chicago’s South Side was little more than 12 months old when a standing-room-only crowd of more than a thousand worshipers...
I see them all the time, naked white crosses on the shoulder of the road, on the other side of the ditch, at that bad curve on the highway. There’s one on a...
By Bob Zyskowski Maureen Rogers and Lanny Law, caught in a sudden downpour, took shelter in a little cafe and warmed up with some tea. After several hours of...
Those more familiar with Jack Kerouac’s dissolute public life than with his literary output may be surprised to see him numbered among Catholic authors. But...
On the seventh centenary on the birth of St. Bridget of Sweden, the pope sent a message to St. Bridget’s Order of the Most Holy Savior, praising its foundress...
The jackhammer blast of gunfire ripped me from my sleep. Normally, late-night street sounds on Route de Delmas in Port-au-Prince, Haiti are no more alarming...
