I'm hoping that a softer approach to these 40 days will help prepare me for the more difficult ones I know are coming.

Take the money? Join a monastery? Grab the gun?

Young Latinos are constantly negotiating who they are as people of faith and as members of our society. Some feel alone, others rejected, others not fully understood. Yet all carry in their lives an element of hope to which the church must pay attention.

While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.

I know of nowhere saner or more steadying, especially in a world of acceleration and contention.

Our readers offer their appreciation for Kerry Weber's defense of Catholic kitsch.