This week is the first-ever National Catholic Sisters Week! Here Mary Pellegrino, C.S.J., discusses charismatic principles for modern religious.
On the Feast of the Annunciation, Helen Prejean, C.S.J., reflects on encounters with everyday annunciations.
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
I love horror movies because they show me the sublime. I love them for a lot of other reasons too, I admit, depending on my mood. I don’t believe in a grand, unified theory of horror, or of any other genre of film; most genres are a welter of traditions and counter-traditions. Sometimes you wa
The enthusiastic reaction to Jorge Mario Bergoglio rsquo s choice of the name Francis underscores the ongoing power of the saints in shaping the Catholic sacramental imagination The new pope implicitly suggests that the things that mattered to St Francis mdash concern for the poor care of creatio
In the opening paragraph of Beyond the Walls Joseph Palmisano S J advances a startling claim Edith Stein rsquo s forced removal from her Carmelite monastery in 1942 and her subsequent murder at Auschwitz stand before us as ldquo a lsquo prophetic sign of our times rsquo rdquo and a model fo
The passage from the Book of Wisdom about God ldquo overlooking rdquo sins has a wry humor when juxtaposed with little Zacchaeus too small in stature to be seen That is not true of course for no matter where Zacchaeus was standing hidden among the crowd or walking away from Jesus God ldquo