As a young seminarian in the 1960s, the Rev. Robert Rosebrough marched for civil rights. For most of his 46 years as a priest, he has worked in inner-city parishes. His parish, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is in Ferguson, Mo., a short distance from where a white police officer shot an unarmed African

Jordan Becker has close-cropped dark hair, a trim goatee and bulging biceps from lifting weights daily at the gym. Becker did not always look this way. A photograph of Becker at age 4 shows a smiling little girl with ringlet curls in a frilly dress. “My mother had to pay me to wear that dress,

Poet James Merrill once described his fellow writer Elizabeth Bishop as ldquo a genius masquerading as an ordinary woman rdquo I thought of that line after spending two days this past summer working on a profile for PBS-TV rsquo s nbsp Religion amp Ethics NewsWeekly nbsp on the Quaker folk sing

Just as his music defies easy labels, Springsteen the man is giving new meaning to the term "senior citizen."

Chicagoans received the leader they were seeking in Spokane Bishop.

Chicago Catholics are as feisty and independent as the wind that famously whips across this city from its lakeshore. In decades past, they enthusiastically embraced the labor and Catholic Worker movements. At some parishes today, lay people give sub-radar reflections at Sunday Mass.“Catholics

The history of the Jesuits in America is largely a story of movement—one of crossing first an ocean, then lakes and rivers and ultimately traversing ethnic, linguistic and ideological boundaries. Those journeys ended with a series of dwelling places where both the mind and spirit could expand.