So who is Stephen Prothero? He’s a professor at Boston University, and he contributed a column to CNN’s Belief Blog.
…as chosen by Stephen Prothero, a self-proclaimed “religiously confused” Catholic. (Personally, I like my year-end-selected-by-the-readers polls better.)
At the threshold of the Apostles, here comes Texas...
With few exceptions, the prelates received since the USCCB's 15 regional pilgrimages began in November have reported on local churches which, at best, have held their own in the last decade. As the bishops of Texas arrive in Rome, however...
Closed Communion...
The sacrament is grace, not magic. If it were simply a matter of handing the sacrament to as many people as possible, regardless of their actual relationship to the Church and their docility to its teaching that would be one thing. But the Church has a responsibility to see to it that we converts really know what we are agreeing to...
7 Surprising Things About Having a Big Family...
I’m an only child. My husband is an only child. My dad is an only child. I grew up around small families: I can’t recall a single friend who had more than two siblings living at home, and none of my close friends ever had a baby in the house during the time I knew them.
There was something awful about the year 1968, when so many Catholics drank the poison of the world...
I was but a lad at the time, merely seven or eight years of age, but almost everything on the T.V. terrified me. Terrible reports from Viet Nam, (where my father was at the time), the Tet Offensive nightly reports of death and casualties (was my daddy one of the ones killed?).
Jesus drives sin out of our souls, making us holy temples...
Parish bulletins are not usually memorable. But at least one is stuck in my memory banks. Several years ago, visiting a parish, I was surprised to read a pointed message from the pastor in the bulletin. After lamenting several moral failings within the parish...
There is something special about a mother and her love for her child...
There is something special about a mother and her love for her child. We tend to reflect it in our laws — at least family law — and, largely, we still seem to carry it culturally. We know it innately, and it’s one reason why the “women’s health” rhetoric, of which we’ve heard so much lately...
With few exceptions, the prelates received since the USCCB's 15 regional pilgrimages began in November have reported on local churches which, at best, have held their own in the last decade. As the bishops of Texas arrive in Rome, however...
Closed Communion...
The sacrament is grace, not magic. If it were simply a matter of handing the sacrament to as many people as possible, regardless of their actual relationship to the Church and their docility to its teaching that would be one thing. But the Church has a responsibility to see to it that we converts really know what we are agreeing to...7 Surprising Things About Having a Big Family...
I’m an only child. My husband is an only child. My dad is an only child. I grew up around small families: I can’t recall a single friend who had more than two siblings living at home, and none of my close friends ever had a baby in the house during the time I knew them.
There was something awful about the year 1968, when so many Catholics drank the poison of the world...
I was but a lad at the time, merely seven or eight years of age, but almost everything on the T.V. terrified me. Terrible reports from Viet Nam, (where my father was at the time), the Tet Offensive nightly reports of death and casualties (was my daddy one of the ones killed?).
Jesus drives sin out of our souls, making us holy temples...
Parish bulletins are not usually memorable. But at least one is stuck in my memory banks. Several years ago, visiting a parish, I was surprised to read a pointed message from the pastor in the bulletin. After lamenting several moral failings within the parish...
There is something special about a mother and her love for her child. We tend to reflect it in our laws — at least family law — and, largely, we still seem to carry it culturally. We know it innately, and it’s one reason why the “women’s health” rhetoric, of which we’ve heard so much lately...
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