Odds are, if your parish provides a “gluten-free” host, it is actually just using a low-gluten host.
Sacraments
Posted inFaith, Synod on the Family
Top 10 takeaways from “Amoris Laetitia”
Pope Francis’s groundbreaking new document asks the church to meet people where they are and to consider the complexities of people’s lives, to consider the complexities of people’s lives and to respect people’s consciences.
Posted inFaith
Confirmation Bias: Rethinking the sequence of the sacraments
What is the appropriate age for Catholic children baptized in infancy to celebrate confirmation? It might seem a relatively minor issue. Yet I believe the great efforts the U.S. Catholic Church has put into the new evangelization, its mission to “invite each Catholic to renew their relationshi
Posted inFaith, Of Other Things
Examining our social sins
A Lenten reflection on the collective sins of racism, violence and environmental destruction.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Joseph Ratzinger: The local church and the universal church
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger responds to a 2001 America article by Cardinal Walter Kasper on the relationship between the universal church and local churches.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The sacramentality of adoption
Adoption is sacramental, revealing to humanity the possibility of divine love.
Posted inFaith, Features
When priests hear about sex abuse in confession, should they be forced to report it?
Addressing new legal challenges to the seal of confession.
Posted inFaith
Sacraments for Every Child: How parishes can welcome children with disabilities
How parishes can welcome children with disabilities
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My Confirmation blunder: A look back at a special day
It was not until I was confirmed, at about age 10, that I got a chance to pick a name for myself—a second name, but still a name that, unlike my baptismal name, was my choice. Confirmation was another one of those “when I call your name, march quietly up to the front of the […]