What do Rocket Racoon, Superman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and following Jesus have to do with each other? These super folks have a lot of the same qualities it takes to live authentic Christianity today.
Superheroes can be useful for catechesis on virtues, values
Christina Capecchi: ‘Find the heart of the work’: wisdom from Tomie dePaola
So much of Tomie’s Catholic upbringing appears in his richly colored folk art – the nuns and friars, the churches and baptisms – and the depiction of family life often mirrors his own Irish-Italian rituals.
Bishop Reed: ‘I watch the dads in my parish very closely’
Q&A with Bishop Reed, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston and chairman of the USCCB’s committee for Communications.
What the church teaches: End-of-life issues
The Catholic church teaches that all life, from conception to natural death, is sacred. However, modern medical advances have made end-of-life issues increasingly difficult to sort out.
In honoring anti-Catholic activists, L.A. Dodgers strike out
By deciding to reinvite the activist group, the Dodgers might win a peaceful moment from the LGBTQ lobby, but many others lose.
On Groff v DeJoy: Do we still want our Sabbath rest?
Both the extent and the limitations of the Supreme Court’s power are visible in a pending case raising the question of how far employers must go to accommodate employees’ religion.
Love well to speak well: Francis’ challenge for World Communications Day
World Communications Day reminds the church to embrace media technologies for the proclamation of the Gospel and the spread of goodness, and serves to educate her sons and daughters to be critical thinkers when engaging media messages.
John Paul II and our mother in heaven
Standing before an image of the Virgin Mary, Wojtlya’s father told him, “From today on, she will be your mother.”