Our Faith

Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.

How to handle grief

Jack Miller, author of Healing Our Losses: A Journal for Working Through Your Grief (1993), doesn't tell peple how to grieve-only that they must grieve...

Keeping up appearances

Between the ages of 8 and 10, I spent considerable time hoping for a Marian apparition. In the mid-1960s, Lourdes and Fatima were still on the lips of...

Mom dad I’m gay

Mary Ellen and Casey Lopata's lives changed drastically during Thanksgiving weekend 1983. That's when their oldest son, Jim, came home from...

My teenagers are a constant revelation

Anyone who survives the dentist's drill should be able to pass this acid test. As I sit terrified in a car crammed with 15-year-old boys, my own at the...

Pray Without Ceasing

Tell us about your own prayer life. When did you start doing fixed-hour prayer? Although the roots of regular daily prayer go back to my college years, it...

Ritual rewards

What Mary Hansen rmembers about her father's sudden death 22 years ago was praying the rosary at St. Anthony's Church in Tigard, Oregon. She and...

Who’s following orders?

In a classroom at Mt. St. Vincent's College in the Bronx, New York, Professor Rob Jacklowsky guides his class of sophomore and junior English majors...