Something you don’t hear every day from a Jesuit: I’m here to pick up a cassock for my trip to Lourdes.

Catholic students are quick to talk about their experience of church—but what about their experience of Christ?

When I think about the Holy Family I remember other holy families as well, the ones who brought me up in the faith, who showed me how to love and who taught me how to celebrate Christmas.

When I returned last fall to New York City after 30 years away, what demanded the most adjustment for me was the absence of light. "Welcome to New York," I was told. The deprivation of daylight is one of the things New York apartment-dwellers have to endure.

Young adult Catholics are legion. Statistical surveys indicate as much. Yet when I step over the threshold of my parish church, I see very few of my peers.

Facing the challenges and accepting the gifts offered by homosexual priests in the Catholic Church