When your teenage daughter tells you that the Dalai Lama has a lot more going for him than the pope, do you have an answer for her? Just what about Catholicism...
Our Faith
Essays and reporting on theology and scripture that put our faith in the context of everyday life.
In these latter years of the 20th century, matters related to “letting go” or not letting go have attained great prominence. The slogans can be as...
Years ago, I learned a lesson about passing on religious faith during a golden summer while my family was on vacation. My daughters were young, about ages 3...
Welcome to Iceland It's that little spit of land out in the North Atlantic, slightly smaller than the state of Kentucky and with a population the size of...
In its best moments Catholicism is the happiest of the major world religions. It is permeated by the reverent joy of Christmas night, the exultant joy of...
Your book All Saints tells the stories of a broad range of saints-some officially canonized and some not, some Catholic or Christian, some not. How did you...
The scary part of parenting is that you never know when you're making an indelible impression on your kids, nor what lesson your child is taking from it...
Someone to watch over me Marie Allen, of Charleston, South Carolina lost her husband when he died unexpectedly of a heart attack only a few months after their...
I had never thought about it in quite that way. Never thought about parenting as a "charism." A calling perhaps. An undertaking of immense spiritual...
Two years into her work at a New York advertising research firm, Joan Conroy realized her workdays were making her miserable. “A lot of it was just the...
