In the coronavirus epidemic, Catholic educators have a real-world laboratory to evaluate how they make practical the too-often merely conceptual talk about Catholic identity. Do current pedagogies give students what we say they will—a truly distinctive way of being, a way of knowing and a way of responding to life’s most difficult problems?
Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, Features
Citizenship is facing an existential crisis. Can political theology help?
In a troubled time in our nation’s history, can we unite around shared commitments to freedom, human dignity and truth?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The Christ-like (and paradoxical) life of Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day lived a life that today poses significant challenges for just about anyone mindful of the least of our brethren.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The corporeal imagination of Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’
Class gets placed front and center in this upstairs-downstairs romance between an upper class girl and her maid’s son.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I grew up in a Catholic cult. I had to tell my story before I could accept that.
Telling my story might have been impaired had I approached it from the point of view of describing a cult. That was for the audience to discern and for me, ultimately, to accept.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
CARA study on new ordinands spots trends worth watching
A New CARA study on the priesthood examines the trend toward ordaining younger priests as compared to past years, citing factors such as cultural and immigration variables.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What lapsed Catholic writers can teach us about our faith
The fiction of Catholic writers (and their lapsed Catholic brethren) has been described as “an invitation to mystery, not mastery, to communion, not control.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praise, reverence and serve the God of coronavirus
You are called to become obedient enough to serve the God who invites you to do seemingly very little. The God who himself apparently does nothing as the disease spreads.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
John Mulaney, my Irish twin who wasn’t to be
Each of us imagines we have “My Person.” I long thought mine was comedian John Mulaney.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Fr. James Martin’s 1997 review of ‘Nothing Sacred’
“Nothing Sacred” is the rare television show that deals with American Catholicism in an intelligent, adult manner.