Voices
Terence Sweeney is a professor in the Honors Program at Villanova University.
FaithFaith in Focus
Too often they feel like obligations with barely any holiness and no feasting.
FaithShort Take
'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pro-lifers need to seriously consider what defeats at the ballot box mean—and ask themselves why recent legal successes have not translated into democratic successes.
FaithFaith and Reason
There is much to hope for in the U.S. bishops’ project of local and national revitalization. But there cannot be a full-fledged eucharistic revival without a precious blood revival.
Arts & CultureBooks
Vincent Lloyd's 'Black Dignity' is is a profound challenge to anyone who takes seriously the struggle for human dignity, antiracism and the work of dismantling white supremacy.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
These trends should prompt an examen among Catholic educators. Do our schools lead people to drift from religion to money, from community engagement to private enrichment?
FaithFaith in Focus
Our task as sacristans is to attend to small acts of care in a world that is too often inattentive and careless.
Arts & CultureBooks
Too many of us are attracted to a “spatial” life because we can control spaces and stop them from changing. But time, even when managed, is always beyond our control. In his new book, James K. A. Smith seeks to reorient us to the reality of human life as temporal.
FaithShort Take
We experience now a church where the laity matter—where, for example, a New York Times columnist without any church title can have a voice.
FaithFaith in Focus
After two years without it, I fear we are forgetting what is so precious about Christ’s blood and the reception of Communion in both forms.