I wanted to convert to Buddhism when I was 17. Raised by a Catholic family and forced to attend religious education classes until I was almost 13, I’d had...
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I spent my entire life in public schools, and when I started at Loyola University Chicago, I was unaware that retreats were a regular part of Catholic schools...
For most Catholics, the month of March signifies the liturgical season of Lent, the 40 days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving where we take the time to...
It’s Good Friday—viernes santo—and we are walking. The liturgy moves from the parish church, with its adobe walls, concrete floor, and...
Today Netflix releases the second season of their critically acclaimed Marvel Comic Daredevil series. And, most likely, this will immediately result in a night...
In a recent episode of the CBS show Madam Secretary, there’s a scene where the Secretary of State’s husband—a renowned religion...
I learned to bake from my grandmother; every summer I would visit her house, and we would bake cookies, birthday cakes, and chocolate pudding pies. But my...
(Possible spoilers ahead.) We are convinced that we could make our present better if we just had a time machine in which to go back and change our past...
Okay, okay. I confess. I’m a romantic. I mean, it shouldn’t be that big of deal, right? I mean, say you were to randomly get on a free...
Here at Last is Love: Selected Poems by Dunstan Thompson. Edited by Gregory Wolfe (Slant Books, 2015) In his afterword to Here at Last is Love, critic Dana...
