In the 15 years since he first asked for our prayers, David has faced three execution dates.
Faith in Focus
A Delicate Mission: The new evangelization in an ancient land
What does it mean to evangelize in the 21st century? A Christian teacher in Taiwan reflects.
The Old Gym: Recalling a Catholic school classic
Here’s a wonderful, redolent, crucial part of our Catholic childhoods.
The sacramentality of adoption
Adoption is sacramental, revealing to humanity the possibility of divine love.
A Catholic experience of Ramadan
I, a Catholic and a Jesuit, am grateful for this Muslim holy season for challenging me to be a more dedicated child of God.
Shelter From the Storm: An education in violence and the Gospel
Father Pedro, a modern-day prophet, serves migrants seeking a new life in the United States.
Center Peace: Finding my way through a prayer labyrinth
The raucous crow of roosters announced my arrival as I pulled my car into the last available parking space. It was my first visit to the Canossian Spirituality Center in Albuquerque, N.M., and the day had started off in its usual, hectic way. I had overslept, burned breakfast, misplaced the car keys
A Father’s Faith: Wisdom borrowed from St. Joseph
Today is the Feast Day of St. Joseph, the patron saint of fathers, workers and of the universal church. Tom McGrath writes of lessons learned from the “man of few words but plenty of action.”
Love Aflame: Recovering an old devotion
One of the strongest images I have of my paternal grandparents’ home in east Tennessee is of a rather large print of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that hung at the far end of their hallway. My grandmother told me that she and Grandpa had received it as a wedding gift in 1946. It had been hanging i
It Takes a Village: Finding a place my aging mother can call home
My mother now lives in a place called The Village. It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child, but perhaps a village can be helpful at any age. It certainly seems our family requires the help of this village to care for our mother. She lives in the part of The Village labeled “a
