When you replace “God” with “Dog” in a lot of Bible verses, they became startlingly apt commentary.

My boys’ complaints about going to church and my refusal to capitulate to them are themselves a kind of ritual.

I was Catholic. You pray, you receive the sacraments, you imitate the saints. What more guidance do you need?

My grandmother, Dorothy Day, believed that to lose one’s faith was the greatest sadness.

A new talk by the pope, as well as “Evangelii Gaudium,” gives clues to his thinking about the thesis of a new book by Rod Dreher.