On Ash Wednesday, we read St. Paul’s words to the Christians in Corinth: “We are ambassadors of Christ.” This exhortation reminds us that St. Paul lived a life...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Recently, I was shopping for books to add to my kids’ library. As I perused the selection, I wondered: Should I lean more into faith formation and spark an...
Good is to be done and pursued and evil is to be avoided.” So goes the first principle of natural law according to Thomas Aquinas, a morality that remains...
“Now during those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.” • (Luke 6:12) You might say that it was Thérèse who...
Petra Gardella The idea of writing about birds in world religions started with an argument about turkeys. Petra Gardella and Laurence Krute, then both...
Cosmetic surgery in the United States today is a multibillion-dollar industry—smoothing out wrinkles and plumping up lips is no longer limited to Beverly Hills...
I remember the first time someone referred to me as “opinionated.” While not categorically negative, the trait is hardly complimentary, and being called such...
“You are who you are,” says Maybe Burke, a trans artist and educator. “No one can tell you who you are but you. Whoever you know yourself to be, you are right...
In September 2002, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I was 10 years old, living in New York, and full of frightened questions about...
I was scheduled to graduate from Villanova University in May 1979. I was a business major and near the top of my class grade-wise, and I had spent months...
