As they gether around the dinner table each evening, the Yala family of Oak Park, Illinois gives thanks to God in both English and Arabic. Dana bows her...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Here's the good news from the land of Catholic teenagers: They want more. They want more religious knowledge, more connection with Jesus, and more...
When Marilyn Jansen thought about re-entering the job market, she was filled with dread. Years ago Jansen, 50, had left her travel-heavy career of...
New parents often describe childbirth and their part in procreation in religious, almost mystical, terms. It’s a “miracle,”...
Sometimes the best place to talk to Catholic baby boomer men about spirituality is far removed from the quiet of a church sanctuary. Kevin Bartels of Queens...
Few human activities are more basic than walking, and few more taken for granted. You need to watch an infant to be reminded that walking is a hard-won...
Caryll Houselander became a significant spiritual mentor for me in my 20s, when I found her book The Reed of God, about Mary and Christ. After that I read...
It was a warm weekend in May when my wife asked me to stop the car in the middle of the road in Naples, Ney York. “St. Januarius!” she said excitedly pointing...
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes upon your...
Harry Potter and his lessons on “defense against the dark arts” have nothing on our defender, St. Michael the Archangel. For me, Michael almost got lost in the...
