People are more likely to be open to hearing the truth if they know you occasionally feed them and give them free babysitting.
Ministry
Posted inFaith, Features
Faith is strong in middle America’s small towns—but its future is uncertain.
On any given Sunday, the pews of St. Michael’s in Axtell, Kan., are filled with more than half the town’s population.
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis: Do not over-intellectualize your faith
The poor and humble people who have faith in the Lord are the victims of the “intellectuals of religion,” and those who are “seduced by clericalism.”
Posted inFaith
The best way to teach your kids about the faith? Start with the family.
Can changes to religious education reduce the exodus of young adult Catholics?
Posted inOf Other Things, Politics & Society
I took a group of high school students to prison to meet people their age. Here’s what I saw.
The detainees don’t often get asked for their prayers.
Posted inFaith, News
After cremation, what should you do with the ashes?
Cardinal Gerhard Muller said church law has not specified exactly what should be done with “cremains.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Can Catholics reconcile scattering ashes and the resurrection?
A desire to return to nature need not be labeled “un-Christian.” Ashes to ashes, after all.
Posted inFaith
First interview: Superior General Arturo Sosa, S.J. on his life in the Jesuits
The conversation introduces the new Superior General to Jesuits and the wider Ignatian family around the world.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Why Pope Francis’ comments on women’s ordination are both business as usual and a big deal
Why Pope Francis’ comments are both business as usual and something worth talking about.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Unprecedented Preaching
One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?