My trip to Israel this summer made me aware that everyone’s world is a world dependent upon a single perspective — formed by a single definition of “normal.”Read More

We need a church that recovers what it means to be a family, a family that can disagree and argue passionately about things, but also that loves one another.Read More

Bigmindedness looks at the connection between present concerns and future consequences, reminding us that one thing leads to another and to take seriously what that other might be.Read More

A visit with his aunt leads Catholic Review visual journalist Kevin J. Parks to discover more about his German heritage.Read More

Each new media technology has given the church new channels for sharing the joy of the Gospel, but the story has not always gotten through.Read More

The faith of the world's young people is precisely what the present crisis is destroying. It will not be enough, though it is certainly necessary, for the church to root out the evil in her midst and bring about some semblance of justice.Read More

For children's sake, for our church's sake, for the sake of our own souls, we cannot choose the easy way out and avoid what is difficult to say or do.Read More

The day after Nick left us, I was sobbing uncontrollably, pacing the floor alone in my living room, when my husband was out. I screamed at God, saying, “How could you take my son? My son!! Why did you take him from me???!!!”Read More