“They died on their way to this country and made that journey from life into death,” Ms. Marquez said. “In the end, we will find them there with our God.”
Faith
Posted inOf Many Things, Politics & Society
The pilgrim believes you can find God in all things—even beyond the horizon
“Faith is the heart of the pilgrim, every pilgrim, the pilgrim’s modus operandi. Faith is our yes to what we know; but even more, it is our yes to what we don’t know—to all that is to come,” writes Matt Malone, S.J., in a homily he delivered in Ireland.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The culture wars won’t stop the rise of the religiously unaffiliated
The Pew Research Center recently declared that so-called nones, or the religiously unaffiliated, make up 26 percent of the U.S. population, up from 17 percent only a decade ago.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
James K. A. Smith takes 21st-century readers on pilgrimage with St. Augustine
James K. A. Smith’s new book seems to have been written largely with disaffected evangelicals in mind, those who have “been there, done that and left the stupid Christian T-Shirt at home.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Can you be a woman of both faith and feminism?
‘This is My Body,’ by Cameron Dezen Hammon, is a warning about how a feminist can fall prey to and rationalize the pervasiveness of misogyny, despite his or her best intentions.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Nichols on why John Henry Newman is ‘a patron saint for everyone’
The cardinal archbishop of Westminster came to Rome with 15 English and Welsh bishops to concelebrate the Mass in which Pope Francis declared Newman a saint, the first British saint to be born after 1800.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The Word of God came to heal our suffering—if we’re open to it.
We spend billions each year on avoiding pain through pharmaceuticals or self-medicating through alcohol and drugs. But we must not forget that pain and suffering are not the enemy.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Four tips for surviving the sign of peace at Mass
Navigating that 30-second trial of social competency that causes even the most extroverted of Catholics to break a sweat
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The inspiring witness of Fr. Tomás Halík
Fr. Tomás Halík might be the most thoughtful, learned and interesting Catholic that is widely unknown in the United States today. Hopefully, this book will right that wrong.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What are ‘Red State Christians’ really like?
In her new book on ‘Red State Christians,’ Angela Denker seeks “greater engagement and conversation at a time when America feels pulled to its extremes, when our first national impulse is to block and unfriend anyone who disagrees with us.”