Daniel Sulmasy discusses preparing your family for how to respond to a health crisis when you can't. What kind of advance directives do you recommend? I...
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Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
The debate about death with dignity needs the wisdom of the Catholic spiritual tradition, says this physician and bioethicist. If you’ve never had to...
Politics as usual doesn't inspire hope for one Catholic grandfather. Candidates ought to answer the tough questions about who they are, he says. On...
U.S. marriage rates are dropping, while the approval ratings of cohabitation and childbearing before marriage are climbing. Young adult Catholics don’t...
No need to lug volumes of spiritual readings around—God’s on your smartphone. It took me months to save up the money to buy the four leather-bound volumes of...
Careers, children, cohabitation—this isn’t your parents’ path to the altar. Emily Barnak remembers a term that one of her cousins devised years ago to refer to...
An acquaintance recently returned to the church after more than 10 years of apostasy. One motivation for coming back was the religious education of her son...
I was a student at Yale Divinity School when Pope John Paul II died. He was the only pope of my lifetime, and while he was said to be loved by youth, I...
A few years ago I was having lunch with a friend who is an agnostic. I had just finished my annual eight-day retreat at my favorite place to pray, Eastern...
No one can strike terror in the heart of a grownup quite like a 16-year-old girl. Many people call me “Father” (I’m a Catholic priest), but...
