Forty years ago, my mother gave me a ragged patch-work quilt made of earth-toned wools—warm except where it was moth-eaten or worn through. I first used it as...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
Timothy Egan was at a crossroads. Raised in a large, devout, progressive Irish Catholic family in Washington State, the bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize...
In the hundreds of years since their development, the monastic rules of Saints Augustine, Benedict, and Francis have ordered and oriented the lives of monks...
Read the words “Monastic Rule” and images of chanting bearded men in coarsely woven habits, or rows of veiled sisters processing solemnly into a chapel likely...
This was not our first rodeo. After several tense moments of anticipation, the test finally flashed “PREGNANT,” and it became official: our third pregnancy in...
I write from New York City three weeks after life has been disrupted and upended in ways that I could never have imagined. The novel coronavirus and the threat...
One cold day in March, the Sosa family was getting ready for dinner when they heard on the evening news that their state had been ordered to shelter in place...
We are all pilgrims. Recent events have taught us that we are all on a journey, at times together, but the pilgrimage is our own. In his book The Art of...
“You should probably sit down for this.” A teenage Sebastian Agignoae had stumbled across a confusing document from the United Nations High Commissioner for...
This is one article in a three-part series on pilgrim saints, also including: Pray while you walk with St. Dominic de Guzman and Work for...
