In its best moments Catholicism is the happiest of the major world religions. It is permeated by the reverent joy of Christmas night, the exultant joy of...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Your book All Saints tells the stories of a broad range of saints-some officially canonized and some not, some Catholic or Christian, some not. How did you...
The scary part of parenting is that you never know when you're making an indelible impression on your kids, nor what lesson your child is taking from it...
Someone to watch over me Marie Allen, of Charleston, South Carolina lost her husband when he died unexpectedly of a heart attack only a few months after their...
I had never thought about it in quite that way. Never thought about parenting as a "charism." A calling perhaps. An undertaking of immense spiritual...
Two years into her work at a New York advertising research firm, Joan Conroy realized her workdays were making her miserable. “A lot of it was just the...
In Burgundy's wine country, young people find peace and perspective on retreat at a monastery in Taize. At first there is fidgeting. And clearing of...
Is the church's "new feminism" a good fit? Last spring at the University of Notre Dame a heated debate about campus performances of the...
In an effort to understand her Muslim students' faith and lives, a social studies teacher at a diverse high school in Fairfax Country...
We owe it to today's immigrants to be honest about the difficulties and prejudices against the huddled masses who came before them. On my father's...
