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  1. Motherhood in Perspective

    | Tania M. Geist

    One fall afternoon, I was trying to get my two small children ready to go for a walk around the block, and every little preparatory step (socks, shoes, coats, etc.) was taking what seemed an eternity to accomplish. My well of patien...

  2. Beauty, Music, and "The Weight of Glory"

    | Carolyn Pirtle

    Driving home yesterday, I happened to hear a performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E-Minor, Op. 64 on Michiana’s 24-hour classical music station 90.7 FM (the greatest gift our local airwaves have to offer). If you&#...

  3. No One Saw the Resurrection

    | Jane Peters

    No one saw the resurrection. We tend to forget this as the sensory richness of Easter floods our senses after a wintry Lent. Yet, the Gospels report only vestiges of the risen Christ: a displaced stone, a crumpled up burial shroud, and a...

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  4. "Repent and Believe": Moral Preaching in the New Evangelization

    | Fr. Charles Fox

    The Archdiocese of Detroit, to which I belong, has recently taken as a motto for its New Evangelization initiative in the lead-up to a diocesan synod held in November 2016, “Unleash the Gospel.” Borrowing this motto, the idea...

  5. Stories of Grace: Episode 15

    | Madeline Infantine

    "If I sit in the side aisle of the Basilica, I can see clearly the stained glass window I eyed suspiciously years ago, a window I can now trust like an old friend: each little piece, fit into place slowly and creatively, as light shines ...

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  8. Editorial Musings: Motherhood and the Paschal Mystery

    | Tania M. Geist

    On the night my first child was born, when she finally came into the light and they placed her onto my stomach, that moment of first seeing her face, right in front of me, was a beautiful shock: her wide open grey-blue eyes looking strai...

  15. Celebrating the Easter Season, Part 3: Dads

    | Timothy P. O’Malley

    In his book, Families and Faith: How Religion Is Passed Down Across Generations, Vern L. Bengston notes that a father who is actively involved in religious practice is more likely to have children…

  19. A Letter to the Newly-Baptized

    | Timothy P. O’Malley

    To the Newly-Baptized: You may already feel it—the fact that this journey you are on made a significant transition when you were baptized. Though you remain on the same path towards Christ, your landscape and means for getting ther...