Healing for my baby daughter was the hardest thing to ask for. I was afraid of false hope.

“I’ve joked with friends: I’ll come back to the church when it restores the old Mass—celebrated by women priests.”

On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church lost a moral titan in the long struggle for racial equality and justice in the United States.

‘Now, I know I’m not the most grateful person you know, God, so let me take some time to tell you what I’m thankful for.’

I have been trying with all my heart—with all my mind, with all my soul, to live peaceably with a terror that has been grafted onto me.

As a Catholic, you continually search for the balance in your professional and spiritual life. Whatever balance you do achieve is far from perfect.