For many Catholics, this new wave of reports of widespread clergy abuse felt like opening up a wound that hadn’t fully healed.
Christ does not scold Martha for being hospitable, but for lacking contemplative hospitality
Rami Hanna and his family — his wife, Sama, their 3-year-old daughter, Julia, and his parents — are now in Jordan after a long journey from their home in Iraq. But they are hoping it ...
Colleen Carroll Campbell felt responsible for the injury that landed her toddler son in the emergency room, and that it was her fault that she might go into labor right there in the hospital parking ...
It seems strange — but accurate — to say the saints were a greedy bunch when it came to grace. They just wanted more, more, more — and pretty much would stop at nothing to ...
My husband and I are really enjoying our time with the newest members of our extended family: identical twins Lilliana and Francesca. They’re going on 3 years old, and it takes a lot of resolve ...
Humans are creatures of habit, so repeating past experiences can be exciting with fresh eyes
The greatest threat to the Gospel may be not secularization or a culture hostile to Christianity. Instead, it may be ourselves, our own tepid preaching of the word. As a Church, we regularly reduce the ...
If American Catholics want to see abortion illegal, they must be consistent in their view of all human life.
In his encyclical Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”), Pope Francis describes one of the temptations of Christians today. Rather than experience the joy of the Risen Christ, the gift of divine love that ...
