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...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
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...
The coffee mug on sale in the gift shop said it all: “Do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa. For $5.95 plus tax I could hold the key to a holy life...
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...
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...
