Religion

Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.

Step one: Open the book

My older sister gave me my first Bible when I went away to college. It sat on a shelf in the dorm for months unopened. Frankly I might never have used it if...

Knock it out

They say it’s lonely at the top, but it’s also lonely in the middle. That’s where Oblate Father Ronald Rolheiser often finds himself, trying...

Battle fatigue

   Five years into the sex abuse crisis, some Catholics are growing weary, while others are cautiously optimistic. The priest sex abuse crisis is the...