Down for the count During his homily on World Marriage Day, the priest asked everyone who had been married less than a year to stand up. He then asked everyone married one to five years to ...

No one's in the kitchen with Martha "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things," said Jesus (Luke 10:38-42) after a productive Martha rebuked her lazy ...

Federal Prison Camp, Maxwell Air Force Base—I was speaking to one of my friends today as we sat by the river inside the Camp. We were talking about life in ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall… I was looking in the mirror recently (I'm trying to lose weight and this is a good way to ruin my appetite…), and I realized that ...

Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33 I live in an ugly building. It's a brown and teal low-rise that winds around a parking lot like a drunken staircase flipped on its side. Not surprisingly, the building was constructed ...

I love the Easter rituals that help me connect with the emotion and significance of this holiest day of the year. So I felt particularly blessed to be present for two different sets of rites ...

Recently, I was talking with a group of socially conscious Catholic friends about money. The question came up, "How does being Catholic influence how we think about money?" Our answers were revealing. The bummer of bucks One mentioned ...

Our mothers and bosses spent their careers intent on proving themselves the equals of men. The focus of their comparison on issues of freedom, autonomy, agency, and compensation was across the gender line. The force ...

The Bible's full of angry people. Noah's mad at his sons, Moses is mad at the Hebrews, and Mrs. Job, after a day of awful luck, tells her husband to "curse God ...

The "Fab Five" have done a complete make-over of the Vatican this past week prompting His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, to say, "It is as it was." ...