Turns out, like having a kid or climbing Mount Everest or doing anything worth doing, you can’t sorta get married.
Family Life
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What can Beyoncé and Pope Francis teach us about love?
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Amoris Laetitia’ were released a year ago. Both offer an important—often fundamentally different—look into love and marriage.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
When sexual assault goes viral
What motivates assailants to brazenly post their crimes to Facebook?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: Dublin meeting will take a deep dive into “Amoris Laetitia” (and not just Chapter 8)
A deeper dive on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ is planned for the World Meeting of Families, to be held in Dublin in August 2018.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Archbishop Gomez: We are the answer that God provides to those who suffer
‘God is silent only to the extent that we are.’
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Learned on the street: Chicago student finds a way out of college homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates as many as 58,000 students across the United States—about one in 10—face homelessness at some point during college.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Dorothy Day: Future Saint, Imperfect Parent
Kate Hennessey’s new book is a searingly honest look at Dorothy Day the mother.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What I’ve learned in the trenches of religious education
People are more likely to be open to hearing the truth if they know you occasionally feed them and give them free babysitting.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the Catholic Worker showed me what it means to be Catholic
Young and old, educated and mentally impaired, healthy and addicted, they wrapped strong and weak arms around us and they held us up.
