I’m still not what you would think of as the typical mother of a priest. But Patrick and I have come to better understand and better love each other.
Kristin Grady Gilger
Kristin Gilger is professor emerita at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and the author of the forthcoming My Son, The Priest: A Mother’s Crisis of Faith (Monkfish Book Publishing Co.). Her son, Patrick Gilger, S.J., joined the Jesuits in 2002 and was ordained in 2013. He is currently an assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University Chicago and a contributing editor at America.
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What can Catholic moms do if they want their children to remain Catholic? Let go.
Those whose children remain practicing Catholics have some ideas about why that may be the case, but they, too, are well aware that things could easily have turned out differently.
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St. Augustine’s love life is fleshed out in “The Confessions of X.”
Kristin Gilger reviews “The Confessions of X” by Suzanne M. Wolfe.
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Vocation Crisis: A mother comes to terms with her son’s priesthood.
My children claim it is often hard to get my attention. I am apt to wander in and out of conversations. I’m often late and easily distracted. I can spend too much time working and not enough time with my family. But when it comes to the big things, when my children are lost or hurt or heading