Growing up in Texas, I often had a stash of Mexican pesos on hand from our recurrent trips across the border. I frequently fiddled with the bills and, raised...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
A young Portuguese princess converts to Christianity as a teenager and takes a vow of chastity, entering into a mystical marriage with Jesus. But her father...
“Tio BrandonAndy!” That’s what our niece has called me and my husband, Andy, since she was 2. She calls us “Tio” because she speaks Spanish. And she calls us...
Sam Rocha remembers the strong recoil of the gun. His father had told him he could have an early inheritance—his great-grandfather Crecencio Rocha’s hundred...
“We will all be changed, in an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet.” • (1 Cor. 15:51–52) There is a saying from Heraclitus: “No one ever steps...
Indignation is not an emotion I expect to experience during a homily. Inspiration, interest, contemplation, and even occasionally boredom, sure. But the urge...
This past April, the Pew Research Center shared that 54 percent of U.S. Catholics believe the church should recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples...
My wife recently purchased a new T-shirt: black, sleeveless, and adorned with a punk rock cartoon vampire in a nod to one of her favorite shows. When it...
For centuries, a consistent commitment to nonviolence was, at best, a marginal position within the Catholic Church. Rather than rejecting violence outright...
Have you ever spent a long time trying to find something that ended up being in an obvious place? Like when your mom can’t find her cell phone so she calls it...
