Have we reached a turning point in how we handle sexual misconduct in the workplace and beyond?
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Feast of the Holy Innocents: 2,000 years later we still remember the pain their mothers felt
Thirty-four years ago I held my child, my 22-month-old son, cradling him in my arms as I watched the last flicker of his life ebb away.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Catching Sight of Grace
Family life in the Bible is both difficult and grace-filled.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Kirsten Powers worked for Bill Clinton and Fox News. She has some thoughts on sexual harassment.
How does an appointee in the Bill Clinton administration end up as a regular face of Fox News? It’s complicated. And what does a woman who has worked for decades in both politics and the media have to say about today’s sexual assault and harassment reckoning? A lot. This week we talk with Kirsten Powers, […]
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Monks aren’t the ones living in silence and solitude. We are.
After a visit to Christ in the Desert, I knew it was not the monks whose lifestyle I should question.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why you can’t become a saint by yourself
It is no coincidence that saints often come in pairs.
Posted inFaith, Features
The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest
I never wanted to be a priest. But here I am. Newly minted Father Brendan, and still wondering how I got here.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: We need to go to Sunday Mass
“We don’t go to Mass to give something to God, but to receive from him that which we truly need.”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
The beautiful legacy of black Catholicism in the United States
This week’s guest is Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning journalist who is currently a columnist for Roll Call. Her latest article for America is “Catholics of color are keeping the U.S. Catholic Church alive.” Ms. Curtis says “being [a] black Catholic was very natural, it was just my life.” She grew up in Maryland, and […]
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Will you be taking part in #GivingTuesday? The founder tells us how it began
This week’s guest is Henry Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y and the founder of Giving Tuesday. “We started Giving Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday,” explains Mr. Timms, “to go from a national conversation about consumption to a national conversation about compassion.” Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable-giving season and asks […]