As pandemic restrictions have eased, most parishioners have returned to in-person Masses. But some would prefer the option for virtual services to remain.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Andre Dubus on prayer and parental love
Andre Dubus wrote short stories and novellas about the brutal truths and miraculous moments in life—and more than a few dealt with the joys and sorrows of fatherhood.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: What is the bishops’ eucharistic revival, and why should Catholics care?
Pew reports that only 32 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The U.S. bishops are trying to make that number go up.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I think God might want me to be a vegan
I became a vegetarian, and I am now thinking about becoming a vegan. In this discernment, I see God staring back at me.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Many libraries are ending late fees. They’re showing us an unexpected mercy.
In San Diego and Boston, in Burbank and Chicago and Orange Beach, Ala., libraries all over the country have been ending the dispensing of fines for overdue books.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Thomas Merton’s deep devotion to the Eucharist — and how it called him to radical love
Gregory K. Hillis tackles an argument that has long haunted Thomas Merton’s legacy: that Merton somehow was not a faithful-enough Catholic.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis tells the elderly: Don’t be religious hypocrites—young people are watching us.
The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Angry at the church? Mass may be the only place to heal.
The great Catholic irony is that the Mass—that ripe cadenced insane activity at the heart of the church—is weirdly, bizarrely, the right and fitting place to bring our concerns about the Mass itself.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Is Pope Francis prepping for doomsday in the church? I hope so.
The institutional Catholic Church as we currently experience it is simply not going to be able to survive, and yet much of our leadership seems content to blame the messenger and insist on business as usual. So what to do?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
We don’t need to ask God for signs—they’re already all around us
God is in all things. But in moments of pain and tragedy, we want that extra wink, that hand of comfort.