I felt oddly and uncharacteristically vulnerable when I realized that my daughters had given up a free weekend in their own lives to check in on their mom.
In All Things
Christmas with Bing and Frank
If you’re tired by the stress of Christmas preparations, sit back and watch this musical gem for a while.
Will scrapping federal oversight help struggling schools?
Yesterday the Senate passed the Every Student Succeeds Act, replacing No Child Left Behind, which for 14 years has set the national standards for public schools.
Discovering God’s Mercy in the Quran
Just when Trump wants to close the door on Muslims, Pope Francis opens the holy door in St. Peter’s Basilica, insisting that divine mercy is never a closed door.
Build Consensus on Gun Control, With Civility
The process starts with each of us accepting the concerns of the other, without trivializing or discounting them.
Peekskill to Paris: A sister’s local perspective on the global climate change conference
“I am fixed on Paris and all it holds, both in peril and in promise.”
What Pope Francis has unleashed cannot ‘be put back in the bottle.’
An interview with journalist and author Austen Ivereigh on the radical reforms of the Francis papacy
New report challenges stereotypes of Catholic sisters
Few sisters cite their congregation’s “progressive” or “traditional” reputation as a factor in their decision to enter.
Sinatra and the saints
A century after Frank Sinatra’s birth, his voice still expresses our longings and loneliness, our joys and our sorrows, our fears and our hopes, our pasts and tomorrows.
Studying the Quran as a Catholic
Underlying Donald Trump’s rant against Muslims seems to be a deep ignorance of Islam, and the loud pretense that such ignorance is not a problem.
