Catholic Herald Acting Editor
I am a people-pleaser. Well, actually, no. I am a recovering people-pleaser, but this is a new development. All my life, I’ve wanted to avoid conflict and manage circumstances so that the people I care about will be happy. Truthfully, I didn’t just want them to be happy; I wanted them to be happy with me. More
As All Souls Day, Nov. 2, approaches, thoughts turn to remembering those whom we have lost over the years. One of those we lost was a woman we dubbed the Catholic Herald’s Number One Fan. More
Like students taking a test, we often assign God to boxes without realizing it: God will be present at church, in Mass or in class. But we can forget that Emmanuel is with us everywhere and always. More
We never really outgrow the desire for a bedtime story. It just takes different forms when we’re older: Netflix, the evening news, Instagram stories.More
It’s sometimes said Pope St. John Paul II was the most intellectually gifted occupant of the See of Peter ever, but inasmuch as the line of popes stretches back two millennia and includes some known to history only by their names, there is no realistic way of verifying that.More
Bingo was his name. Those who knew me in my youngest years know that the first object of my affection — after my family — was a stuffed dog named Bingo. More
In a long, somewhat rambling piece about the bishops and abortion appearing in the September Commonweal, Peter Steinfels makes a crucial point. It’s been made before by others, but it bears repeating at this moment when the Supreme Court, in the term that began Oct. 4, is widely expected to reverse or significantly modify Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision legalizing abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision reaffirming Roe.More
A friend recently invited me to wear a bright blue rubber bracelet with the following words in white: “Nick’s Way Challenge, 365 Days of Kindness, Never Forgotten,” and the date of Nick’s birthday. More