Category: Essays & Profiles
Adjusting Doctrines as the Church Ministers to the Modern World: Part III—Rethinking Contraception by James Magner, MD
A layperson looks at the process of updating Catholic doctrine. The third of a multipart series of essays.
Adjusting Doctrines as the Church Ministers to the Modern World: Part II—The Example of Evolution by James Magner, MD
A layperson looks at the process of updating Catholic doctrine. The second of multipart series of essays.
Adjusting Doctrines as the Church Ministers to the Modern World by James Magner, MD
In this first in multipart series of essays, a layperson looks at the process of updating Catholic doctrine.
Seeing the Church through the Webb Telescope by Gene Ciarlo
Incorporating a cosmic perspective into our daily life and rituals.
Doors to the Sacred: Part III—Marriage by John Alonzo Dick
The third in a multipart series giving an historical, theological, and pastoral overview of the sacraments.
TAC Synodality Week: A Long and Winding Road by Nicole d’Entremont
Stories, not generalities, have power. They give context and reality to our reflections.
TAC Synodality Week: Friendship at the Proximity of Christ by Michael E. DeSanctis
Synodality calls believers to step beyond themselves, even at the risk of rejection, in order to form relationships that might improve not only the church but the world beyond it.
Two Latino Leaders, One Message of Love and Hope by Maribel Landrau, M.A.T.
Saint Oscar Romero and Pope Francis are brothers in their shared commitment to the poor.
The Peace Bishop by William Droel
Revisiting Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's legacy as a conciliatory bishop of peace.
Do We Have It All Wrong? by Ray Temmerman
A simple change to the structure of the liturgy might imbue in us a sense of the essential goodness and beauty which is our created being.
Nigeria’s Catholics Must Reject Calls to Arms by Ray Mwareya
A hastily announced civilian call to arms won’t help ensure the security of Catholics and non-Catholics across Nigeria.
Of Morals and Life by Julie A. Ferraro
As someone who has been on both sides of the adoption process, I may have an understanding about pregnancy that others lack.
The Burdens of Motherhood by Eileen McCafferty DiFranco
I hope that we in America can reach a point where compassion and empathy rather than condemnation and punishment surround women having problem pregnancies.
Summer Reading Series: Leonard Engel on Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”
We open our week-long Summer Reading Series with a close reading of Walker Percy's classic novel.