It is my great honor to tell my children the Advent and Christmas stories that were once told to me.

by Anna Keating December 18, 2015

In our increasingly secular country, the biggest holiday of the year is still Christmas, which, if you think about it, is pretty wonderful.

Synod on the Family

Reaching out to those who have experienced “a failure in love”

by Anna Keating July 22, 2015

The “instrumentum laboris,” or working document, for the fall Synod on the Family speaks to the various needs of the family in the modern world, including the need for pastoral care for those who, as Pope Francis puts it, “have had the misfortune of a failure in love.”When it

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Separation Anxiety: What happens when we disassociate love and sex?

by Anna Keating February 4, 2014

In her article in The New York Times, “Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too,” Kate Taylor describes a world of ambitious Penn undergraduates who put their personal interests and their résumés first. Many have chosen to avoid romantic relationships during college entirely in favor

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Marked for Christ: The sacred symbolism of religious tattoos

by Anna Keating October 31, 2013

Gabe Wells wears glasses and a button-down shirt, is built like a tank and has several large, Catholic-themed tattoos. He got his first when he was doing a year of service after high school. It is an angel surrounded by ivy on his upper arm, a reproduction of a 15th-century illuminated manuscript. T