A few months after Israeli soldiers deported the men of his village, 9-year-old Elias Chacour climbed the hills of Galilee to talk to his friend and champion...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Myles Sheehan has two jobs that cause him to walk with death on a regular basis: One, he's a doctor specializing in the care of old people; two, he's a...
Thanksgiving, and in some places Halloween, is barely over these days before stores begin to play Christmas songs as background sound for the orgy of buying...
When Bonnie Lavric was growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the mid-1960's, her mother, father, and four siblings dutifully piled into their...
For the ultimate getaway why not create a customized travel itinerary designed with your spiritual needs in mind? Choose from Ignatian, Benedictine, Carmelite...
Official statements calling gays and lesbians "disordered" and "violent" do little to make them feel welcomed and respected in...
Former full-time volunteers confess that their experiences change them for good. "This feels like a homecoming," Beth Knobbe told a retreat...
Can Catholics find their soul mates in cyberspace? It looked like a snapshot from ABC’s The Bachelor: A doctor with dimples in his cheeks and...
As he’s entered middle age, Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who has been riding the spirituality circuit for more than 30 years, has started to think about...
There are many passages in the parent-child relationship: birth, weaning from the breast or bottle, preschool or kindergarten, high school, full-time work or...
