One night in 1967, Marcelino Ramos entered the United States illegally in the trunk of a car. Crammed with him as the smuggler's car crossed the border...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
This is a test. Please concentrate. What name pops up when you think: Catholic Church and science? OK, try another. The Catholic Church and literature;...
What kind of changes has the 20th century brought to Catholics in the United States? If I were a sociologist in 1900 and someone asked me to predict how...
Let's get right to the heart of the matter and talk about the fancy "S word." What exactly is "supersessionism," which you say is at...
Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among specific members of the family, and violates the fundamental human...
Back in the day, the rock band The Doors performed a song titled “Petition the Lord with Prayer.” Its refrain ran-in contrast to the title...
It’s a common scene in any hospital. A person is rushed in with a life-threatening condition. Family members wait in the emergency room. Two doctors...
One way of evacuating a funeral home via the back door is to have a priest come up the front stairs. Catholics of a certain vintage, such as those with vague...
Holy days of obligation-days when Catholics are required to celebrate Eucharist-are a result of tradition, devotion, and church law, and their number has...
“The 40 days of Lent” has always been more of a metaphor than a literal count. Over the course of history the season of preparation for Easter...
