The Church will become small
From the crisis of today the Church of tomorrow will emerge—a Church that has lost much. She will become small and will have to...
Giving up Lent
I remember Lent as a kid. It was basically the longest stretch of time EVER, next to Advent of course. Unlike Advent, Lent was...
Of Siberian Exiles and Feistiness
Life is a funny thing, isn't it? We walk around assuming that everyone’s had the same, or similar, experiences as ourselves—growing up in a peaceful home...
Helpless, but not hopeless
Yesterday I was sitting in a fairly uncomfortable chair in the dentist’s office with my mouth full of dental equipment and a couple pairs...
Elementary heroes
Every hero in every story worth telling has at least one thing in common with every other decent hero ever written. Each one must...
Honey, I hate you.
A few weeks before Christmas, as I was working on something across the room from him, my boyfriend decided he was going to get...
Mary and Spiritual Motherhood
January 1 was the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God, a sort of liturgical Mother’s Day, as we highlighted one of Mary’s many titles:...
On the second day of Christmas…
So here we are on the far side of Christmas day. The sleepless nights of knitting and wrapping presents, hours of trying to find...
The Holy Family
Our December 2012 cover artist, Janusz Charczuk, is originally from Poland, where he graduated from the Technical University of Gdansk with a Master’s in...
Equality
Most years, the last week of Advent finds my family scrambling to finish the Christmas preparations. This year, it looks like everything will be...