I love this man who expressed his love with deeds and whose last deed will likely be his slipping away from me.
Family Life
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Infographic: Fifty years after Fair Housing Act, segregation persists
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
Posted inFaith, News
Domestic abuse victims find escaping their predicament no easy matter
In 2016, more than 93,000 people – 79 percent of them women — reported domestic abuse to police, according to Statistics Canada.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why I want my daughter to grow up in a noisy, chaotic Catholic Church
A silent church is a dead church because life makes joyful noise.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Mom (and researcher) who started #postcardsforMacron is not angry
Catherine Pakaluk, who currently teaches at the Catholic University of America and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, describes her tweet to Mr. Macron as “spirited” and “playful.”
Posted inFaith
Reflections on Two L.G.B.T. Questions at the Synod
First, can the synod use the term “L.G.B.T.” in its documents? Second, can the synod acknowledge that gay couples can form a “family”?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Tomie dePaola’s books help us find the sacred in stories of service and stillness
Many of dePaola’s most delightful characters are those who persevere in the worthy effort to simply be themselves.
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
“Little Women”: What Louisa May Alcott’s classic can teach us about female empowerment
The various arguments around Little Women have long boiled down to: does the novel empower women, or does it oppress them?
Posted inAmerica en Espanol, Español
Padre James Martin: Cómo las parroquias pueden dar la bienvenida a los católicos L.G.B.T.
Para Jesús, es la comunidad primero, la conversión después. La bienvenida y el respeto vienen primero.