Perhaps no tradition fills us with as many pleasant memories as the Christmas nativity scene. Times of wonder and joy come alive when we remember the details...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Maybe it’s different for people who live in the neon glow of the Vegas strip or for people from New York, the city that never sleeps. But I hail from rural...
Detail of St. Peter in stained glass by Sylvia Nicolas. The monks processed silently into their new abbey church. The faint chip, chip, chip of pick on stone...
Every Christmas season my mom retrieves “The Book” from storage and puts it on display on the living room coffee table. It’s not a family Bible, but to us it’s...
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future Pope Francis (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (Simon &...
Let me start by saying that I have never been much of a homemaker. I’m young, I’m male, I’m single, and I share an apartment with two other young, male, single...
Even though I grew up Catholic in the 1950s and ’60s, I was only remotely familiar with the custom of the Advent wreath and its meaning. One or two years...
For my family and so many others, 2020 has been the year of waiting. But even before the rest of the country entered the seemingly endless waiting game of the...
We’ve all heard of Squanto, the English-speaking Wampanoag Indian of Thanksgiving fame. No one forgets how he taught the Pilgrims to survive by adding fish...
Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. This becomes most obvious to us when we experience an inner conflict of desires. Perhaps our desire for a more...
