The first step in an evangelizing relationship is that the evangelizer be evangelized.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
President of Strake Jesuit in Houston: ‘Our care for one another seems limitless.’
No one will be surprised to know that our Jesuit family is responding generously.
Posted inFaith, Features
When a Jew and a Catholic marry
There are tens of thousands of Jewish-Catholic intermarriages in the United States, and a good number of them involve partners with strong commitments to their separate traditions.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Why Catholics are called to radical hospitality in these political times
I grew up recognizing foreign as familiar, global as local and diverse as approximating perfection.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why are there so many statues in Catholic churches?
There are not many moments in our worship when our bodies are not being used to say something about what we believe.
Posted inFaith, Video
Confessions on the geaux
A cajun priest bought an old ambulance and converted it into a mobile confessional
Posted inFaith, Features
How Cajun country, an old ambulance and 1,200 frog legs led me back to the confessional.
On finding reconciliation in a post-contrition era.
Posted inFaith, Video
A Cajun Eucharistic boat procession on the bayou
Cajun Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Assumption on the bayou with a one-of-a-kind Eucharistic procession.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Christian Comic-Con: The geeks shall inherit the earth.
This past weekend, I was at Doxacon, “The Geek Orthodox Convention.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Lessons on mercy from four days in the Rockies with my hiking-averse son
Who was I there for: my son or me?