Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.
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Posted inCatholic Book Club
The Big Bang was the brainchild of a Catholic priest
A Belgian priest came up with the Big Bang almost a century ago—but he also wanted to keep science and faith as separate as possible.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Wonder and gratitude: The faith and fiction of Deborah Johnson
Deborah Johnson is not your typical Mississippi book author—but over the years, she has explored themes that reflect her unique background and life story.
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Catholic literature and the restoration of culture
The Catholic literary canon saved my faith—and, I believe, my sanity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A thriller novel with a theological twist
In ‘The Nimbus,’ Robert Baird has written a campus novel that doubles as a theological thriller, a domestic drama that questions the very nature of reality.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
How will Pope Leo lead the church? Clues from his first 100 days
Just over 100 days after the election of Pope Leo, it remains difficult to determine his governing priorities. Yet some early impressions of his personal style are beginning to emerge, along with a few central themes that are likely to shape his pontificate and its approach to evangelization.
Posted inYour Take
The Ten Commandments in classrooms: Our readers reflect
Richard J. Clifford, S.J., argued that posting the commandments in public school classrooms would also violate the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.
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Review: Jamie Quatro and the end of the world
In her second novel, Jamie Quatro considers the destruction of worlds—both on a macro and on a personal scale.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Rekindling my Catholic faith in the ‘fourth quarter’ of life
Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God’s presence, time and time again.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Be like the good Samaritan: Put your time (and money) where your mouth is
Despair is easy for anyone who takes seriously the call to love your neighbor as yourself. But hope can come in two ways.