Jennifer Fulwiler is a lay Catholic writer, speaker and host of a daily radio show on SiriusXM’s “The Catholic Channel.”
Catholic Identity
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Trump reaches out to Catholic voters; a new poll suggests they’re listening
Donald Trump is seeking to woo Catholics via a letter writing campaign.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Celibacy at 30 is not just an empty holding pattern
Being single can become the freedom to give myself away in love in ways I hadn’t imagined.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Confessions of a guitar-Mass Catholic
“I found God’s grace in artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Taking your children to Mass isn’t always easy but it’s worth it.
Over the years, we choose, time and again, to brave the wrath of children awakened too early on a weekend morning, in order that we might continue to attend Mass as a family.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The transformational world of Jon Hassler
Jon Hassler’s sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.
Posted inFaith
Joy to the World: Responses to ‘Evangelii Gaudium’
The Dignity of the Vulnerable By Meghan J. Clarke‘The dignity of the human person and the common good rank higher than the comfort of those who refuse to renounce their privileges” (No. 218). In a simple sentence, Pope Francis summarizes the bedrock of Catholic social doctrine: human dignity
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A Catholic experience of Ramadan
I, a Catholic and a Jesuit, am grateful for this Muslim holy season for challenging me to be a more dedicated child of God.
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How interfaith exploration made me a better Catholic
Our conversations, especially those about the nature of God and our relationship with God, led me to an understanding of the similarities between Islam and Catholicism. Our smiles grew wide when the words of biblical and Koranic stories about Abraham matched up almost perfectly.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
After Alice: The emergence of a new kind of Catholic novel
With Alice McDermott, a new and different kind of Catholic novel has appeared.