My youngest of four daughters has moved out of the house She is now sharing an apartment with one of her sorority sisters only 50 miles from home She is halfway through her freshman year of college She is lovely witty compassionate intelligent thoughtful and completely ready to be out of th

What a beautiful Mass my husband and I attended in West Hollywood while visiting my cousin and his partner At a church with a vibrant outreach ministry in a mostly gay community this Mass on a sunny Sunday has possibly saved my Catholic faith As the mother of a lesbian daughter I continually st

I have surely written this before but I love the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress and I want to thank every person who has the smallest hand in bringing this gathering into being each year The workshops are enlightening and alternately challenging and affirming The liturgies and other c

After my father's death, his shirts and socks seemed sacred.

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nbsp nbsp nbsp What Would Jesus Blog That is the question I tuned into on the car radio on my way home from work today Our very own AMERICA blogger Father Jim Martin was among those interviewed by NPR s All Things Considered regarding the Pope s exhortation to priests to blog on Apparently

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp My dad s funeral Mass was said last summer in a church that he had not often attended After he was buried my mother moved to a smaller house in another town In November she got a letter from the parish where the funeral had been inviting our family to a special

nbsp nbsp nbsp Here rsquo s the kind of year I rsquo m having I rsquo m in the uncomfortable position of being not holy enough for my religious friends and too holy for my non-religious friends I have always lived with the suspicion that I don rsquo t really fit in anywhere that I am a perpet

nbsp nbsp nbsp Our daughter s best friend got married over Labor Day weekend Our families met in 1986 when our oldest girls were three years old It was a beautiful wedding in beautiful Monterey where the newlyweds live The wedding theme was oceanic and tropical the bridesmaids in slim stra

nbsp nbsp nbsp One of my youngest daughter s friends marked the summer after her high school graduation by getting an abortion Apparently she was petrified that her father would have her slightly older boyfriend thrown in jail that she would have to put off going to college and that her mothe