Odds are, if your parish provides a “gluten-free” host, it is actually just using a low-gluten host.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Want to be a better leader? Serve those who serve you.
The best bosses approach their work as a way to help the people under them shine, grow, learn and perform their jobs as well as possible.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Independence Day: Sharing in sin, success and beer
This week the United States celebrated the Fourth of July: a day where people gather with friends and families, drinking Budweisers and eating hot dogs. In these spaces, many Americans discuss the country’s greatness, its independence. For others, these conversations around the grill take a more critical tone, with many wondering if, in fact, the United […]
Posted inFaith, News
Attending church is good for your health. Now what?
Researchers from Vanderbilt University found that middle-aged adults who attended religious services at least once in the past year were half as likely to die prematurely as those who didn’t.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
No one wants to be meek. But that’s how Jesus finds us.
Love cannot be violent, cannot force itself; love must endure injury with patience and without resentment.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Augustine gets a makeover in new translation. He hardly needed it.
Instead of the fusty old churchman we all know, Sarah Ruden’s Augustine is a dreamer, an artist, a poet.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why St. Francis de Sales’s ‘Devout Life’ still resonates today
De Sales’s insistence that a life of prayer “finds its ideal in the ordinary” will appeal to modern readers.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The church is discerning its mission for the 21st century. These Catholic leaders got together to talk about it.
Over 3,000 Catholic leaders gathered to encourage unity on the path to becoming “evangelizing disciples.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Should we sing patriotic songs at Mass? Probably not.
At a Fourth of July parade, I’m happy to sing to my country. At the Mass, I’d rather sing to my Savior.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praying for Hemingway
Even the author’s suicide does not exclude him from God’s mercy.