The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.
Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
As the church faces another crisis, look to women for help
It is time for us to understand how this keeps happening and to stop it. We women are being called to shake things up.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
For Catholics, marriage is a mission
Like the apostles, we have been sent out two by two to proclaim the message of Jesus with our imperfect lives.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
In the U.S. bail system, justice is for sale
Pretrial freedom should not belong only to those who can purchase it.
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Why we shouldn’t try to bargain with God
When we bargain with God, we espouse a God who keeps score, rather than the God who loves us no matter what.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
I thought I had failed my kids spiritually—then I went to my daughter’s parish
There have been times when I have only held onto my Catholic faith by the smallest of fingernails. I am a doubter. I am a protester.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How I honored the memory of my mother by shopping at Nordstrom
Every year, my sister and I take the anniversary of each of our parents’ deaths off and spend it together. We go to the cemetery and to Mass, and gather the memories and the mourning into our arms and hearts for one more year.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How do you outwit a troll? Spread a little love.
Many of us have learned the hard way that “L.G.B.T.” is a trigger for some Catholics to become very un-Christian.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
The spiritual lessons of a school shooting on Ash Wednesday
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How your DNA points to the existence and intricacy of God
Your DNA is like a blueprint of your soul, which is another sacred thing that is not like anyone else’s in the world.