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FaithFaith in Focus
Emma Winters
At first, I blamed God for my injury. Then I thanked God for every step.
“The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer,” 1883, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Wikimedia Commons)
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
No one dies for God as an unspeakable mystery, as simply the word we use for the openness of the human spirit.
FaithFaith in Focus
Gary Gately
The Capital Gazette massacre is not only about incalculable loss but also all the gifts the departed gave us and leave us.
“Healing of the Man Born Blind,” El Greco, 1567 (Wikipedia)
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Because we are not free. Because we live under the tyranny of terror that sin uses to enslave us. We think that mercy will weaken us, destroy our position of strength.
Arts & CultureBooks
Lisa Ampleman
T.S. Eliot attracts and repels all at once—but reading his 'Four Quartets' has been a formative experience for many a spiritual seeker.
A Mass is celebrated at Star of the Sea Catholic Church in San Francisco. (iStock/yhelfman)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan

Compared with other Christians in the United States, Catholics are more likely to attend church to please other family members—and are significantly less likely to go because they “find the sermons valuable.” Those were among the findings of a Pew Research Center poll released in August. Pew interviewed 4,729 U.S. adults, including 844 self-identified Catholics, last December to find out why they regularly attended church or stayed away.