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, […]
Spirituality
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 […]
Posted inFaith, Ideas
The secular world has turned Thanksgiving into madness.
We hear so much about how stringent the church is, how unreasonable in her strictures, how strict in her unreasonableness. But there is no institution so unforgiving as the secular world at this, the most wonderful time of the year.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Thanksgiving Prayer for Nearly Everyone
‘Now, I know I’m not the most grateful person you know, God, so let me take some time to tell you what I’m thankful for.’
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Getting older isn’t for the weak
The future demands faith. Either we summon it and nurture it, or fear will rule our final days.