Despite only recently earning the title, motherhood was not new to me. My body, my mind, my time are not my own.

Mother’s Day is already difficult for women who long to be moms or have lost children in miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a child after birth. And these women do not make up a small percentage of the women in the pews.

I think of pressing a hand or a finger into a wound in order to see, in order to believe.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled April 22 that the city of Philadelphia can bar Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from placing children in foster care with any family because the Catholic agency upholds traditional marriage.

Does Catholic social teaching permit you to mount a machine gun at the door of your family’s fallout shelter? In 1961, this was not an idle question.

From 1997: While I am eager to live, I am also eager to take the journey when God calls me.