While eating ice cream with a group of “beautiful, smart, extroverted, social people,“ Boston College seniors nearing graduation, Kerry Cronin asked them about...
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Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
On the road of life, it’s helpful to have an experienced navigator in the passenger seat. Lunch lasted almost three hours. We talked about health care, the...
Divorce has doubled for couples over 50. Empty nesters share tales from the brink. Even before Dick and Irene Reimbold’s younger daughter left for college...
(This story accompanies The 25-year-itch: Empty nesters and the second half of marriage.) One way to sustain a marriage through the second half is to keep...
This story accompanies The 25-year-itch: Empty nesters and the second half of marriage.) David and Claudia Arp, founders of Marriage Alive and authors of The...
Catholics can take a lesson from the Hindu tradition of yoga when it comes to praying with body, mind, and spirit. Walking into the dark chapel, gothic arches...
I enjoy being open to spiritual experiences while on the road, and there’s no more spiritual experience than traveling to the developing world. To be with the...
I will not be attending church this Sunday, because it’s Mother’s Day, and I choose not to be present at that inevitable moment when all the mothers of the...
All you have to do is show up—and shut up,” said the Jesuit priest, drawing a final chuckle from a group of 40 people settling down for a week of silent...
Editors’ note: Sounding Board is one person’s take on a many-sided subject and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the...
