Faber is not someone well known to the general public. Thanks to the pope he is beginning to become far better known, and rightly so.

When I first learned in college about natural family planning, I was surprised by how exotic and marginalized it was as a family planning method. There was a stereotype that NFP is only for the most devout Catholics who were willing to have big families. There was also a common belief among those in

The sacred and secular meet in a future priest's experience on the battlefield.

I don’t like placing ashes on babies’ foreheads. But I do it.

Forty years after her mother's death, the author finds forgiveness in unexpected places.

While walking home from a nearby shopping mall in Nairobi one evening, I was assaulted and robbed at gunpoint. Most of my friends, family and colleagues responded along two somewhat predictable and justified lines: 1) “Why were you walking in the evening? It’s dangerous—stop walkin