After reading news of the lawsuits brought against the Diocese of Fairbanks and the Oregon province of the Society of Jesus, I left the church for good.
One thing our contributors agree on is that the question of belonging to the church is not a trivial one; the days of Catholicism by default are behind us
Long before Patrick ever set foot in Ireland, the pagan Celts believed their island was a thin, holy place, where the veil between heaven and earth vanishes
Sr. Helen Prejean talks about the pope’s action on capital punishment, the politics of the death penalty, and how Twitter can be used to build spiritual sustenance
Thomas is the patron of all of us who would try to see Christ for ourselves, who would dare to draw close, to reach out and touch him and know him as Lord
Tatyana Tolstaya is a formidable figure in Russian literary culture, and her dark, foreboding new collection of short stories defies conventional narrative forms
A new book on how social and economic institutions have shaped millennials poses questions for churches that wish to build a more humane way of living together
