Our October 31 guest is Simcha Fisher. We talk to her about her recent article on how to choose the right godparents, which you can read here. We also discuss these stories: Can the church be both holy and sinful? The ‘crisis’ of the migrant caravan is one of misperception Pakistani Christians fear violence after […]
Catholic Identity
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Andre Dubus III on his father’s life and works
Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog and a memoir, Townie. A complete collection of his father’s short stories has just been published.
Posted inCulture, Faith
New Bing Crosby bio paints picture of crooner and his priest alter-ego
With Father O’Malley, Crosby “concocted a fantasy priest—a perfect, albeit celibate, man.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What baby boomers owe the next generation of Catholics
The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Catholic literary vision of Dean Koontz
Two questions arise: First, is Dean Koontz to be listed among serious novelists at all? Second, what makes him a Catholic novelist?
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
How can the Gospel help prepare Catholic politicians running for office?
For decades, the U.S. church has gifted its public servants with the social teachings and magisterium of the church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I am gay and Catholic. Are you willing to walk in my shoes?
I wonder what you would feel if you knew me. If you saw what the lives you ask us to lead are actually like.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Catholic comedian Jeremy McLellan on finding God by welcoming the disabled
People with intellectual disabilities are, as Jean Vanier is fond of calling them, “friends of time.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What—if anything—ensures a new college student will keep going to Mass?
It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Negotiating tensions in a postsecular world
The Catholic Church needs to recognize that moved from a secular public sphere—marked by separate and specialized spheres of economy, science, faith and so forth that manage their own concerns in an insular way—to a postsecular public sphere, in which a multiplicity of voices and expertise are welcome to weigh in on an issue.