Mattel and Abercrombie sell sexiness even to 6-year-olds. Enter those who are fighting back to let girls be girls. At a recent wedding Becky Groth was amazed...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
When you’re on chemo, the Stations of the Cross take on a whole new meaning. Growing up Catholic in the 1970s, I remember the older women in our parish...
A Polish Catholic would be a basket case without this annual blessing of Easter goodies. My mother is 100 percent polish (with a maiden name ending in “...
“When I was in Germany in September of 2010,” says Robert Wicks, “I was giving a talk to chaplains who had been working with the military in Afghanistan...
The kids in the Catholic seventh grade classroom—Hispanics, Filipinos, African Americans, and my own Irish American offspring—took on a project to highlight...
My father came home from his service in the Marines in the South Pacific to marry the redheaded girl of his dreams, whom he’d met at St. Francis De Sales in...
Parents have much to say about the church and their children. The young priest preached on the sanctity of life at a Denver hospice. Afterward an older couple...
Recently my friend Angela called me in tears. Angela, 31, and her husband have been married for three years, and they are very well-suited: They can spend...
A new approach to student ministry is changing the Catholic presence on the quad. A young man and woman stop short of the Arizona State University Memorial...
An icon of Catholic social justice, Catherine de Hueck Doherty found that living among the poor helped her find stillness and peace. For me, the distinct pull...
