For decades, the U.S. church has gifted its public servants with the social teachings and magisterium of the church.

I wonder what you would feel if you knew me. If you saw what the lives you ask us to lead are actually like.

People with intellectual disabilities are, as Jean Vanier is fond of calling them, “friends of time.”

It is in college that a young Catholic truly has to lay claim to her faith.

The work of choosing and being a godparent can lead to hurt feelings, dashed expectations—and the occasional influx of unexpected grace.

The Catholic Church needs to recognize that moved from a secular public sphere—marked by separate and specialized spheres of economy, science, faith and so forth that manage their own concerns in an insular way—to a postsecular public sphere, in which a multiplicity of voices and expertise are welcome to weigh in on an issue.