Articles

  1. Accompanying Fellow Disciples

    What does it mean to accompany someone in music, and how can this help us think about what it means to accompany someone on the journey of faith?

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  2. Don't Ban Art: 'This is a Bad Idea'

    A Catholic school, rather than promote artistic expression discourages it in a less than tactful way. Here's how the parent made sense of this ban.
  3. St. Teresa of Kolkata: Icon of Human Dignity

    I first “met” Mother Teresa when I was about eight years old passing countless times by a small magazine clipping posted on our fridge. On it was one of those striking photographs of her holding a small child, the lines deep ...

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  4. What You Should Say to Parents at First Communion

    Talking to First Communion parents soon? Dr. Timothy O'Malley suggests a way to speak to parents about the gift of First Communion for the entire family.

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  5. Mother Teresa and the Pain of Joy

    On September 4, 2016, the woman who claimed that if she ever became a saint she would “surely be one of ‘darkness’”[1] will enter the canon of the Church in broad daylight, for all the world to see. Till the end o...

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  6. Why (Most) Dorm Parties Make Love Impossible

    Last week, in the blog for my class on the sacrament of marriage, I addressed how pornography has malformed the imagination of most Catholics, making it difficult for the gift of love intrinsic to the…

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