Flanagan invites scandal-plagued Catholics to face the reality of our sin with renewed hope with helpful rules.
Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, Features
The era of the parochial school is over. Meet the Catholic educators searching for what’s next.
Today Catholic schools are shifting some of that authority from pastors and principals to other sources.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Want to keep your kids Catholic? Make your home a church.
The church is my home because my home was a domestic church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Catholic guide to your mid-life calling
There are three things you need to orient yourself in times of crisis and change, a monk told me: divine inspiration, the facts of your life and a wise witness to certify that you’re living in reality.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Thinking about your death will make you a better Catholic
This week, we talk with Sister Theresa Aletheia, the founder of the Memento Mori Project.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Sarah Smarsh on the hard-to-find American Dream
“The American narrative of a hard-luck individual working hard, doing the right thing, and finding success for it is so deep in me, my life story so tempting as potential evidence for that narrative’s validity,” Sarah Smarsh writes of her own upwardly mobile economic and intellectual trajectory, “that I probably sometimes err on the side of conveying a story in which I’m an individual beating the odds with her own determination.”
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How addiction and trauma brought one nun closer to God
For the past 10 years, I have been able to share my journey of encountering God’s healing love and mercy at conferences and retreats with audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the nation.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
What it means to be a Catholic feminist and why the church must embrace it
Feminism is both necessary for being a Catholic woman and one of the reasons you will be tested as a Catholic feminist.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
How Catholics influence U.S. politics
This week, we talk with Steven P. Millies about the role of U.S. Catholics in politics.