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...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
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...
“Stand still and allow the strange, deadly restlessness of our tragic age to fall away like the worn-out dusty cloak that it is.” —Catherine de Hueck Doherty...
One day I was home, a familiar comfortable place; the next day I was a stranger in a strange land. It was Nov. 3, 1960, the date of my exile from my home in...
In 1966 U.S. Catholic visited Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker in New York. Part of a series for U.S. Catholic's 75th anniversary. "To say that...
Adults could learn a thing or two if only they listened more when young people of different faiths get together to talk. One recent Monday morning a Catholic...
As a kid in Catholic school, I grew up learning a lot about Mary. She was the Mother of God and the mother of all people everywhere. She wore a white dress and...
Learning from evangelicals isn’t as simple as introducing praise and worship music and talking about a personal relationship with Christ at your next youth...
Catholics can learn a thing or two from our evangelical sisters and brothers. On a Thursday night last September, Scott Sroda found himself at Primetime, a...
On March 5, 2009, Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity and president of the Catholic Health Association (CHA), which represents more than 600 Catholic...
