U.S. Catholic

Sue Monk Kidd was happily writing inspirational essays for Christian magazines, driving carpool for her two kids, and generally being a good Southern Baptist wife and mother when she found herself in the midst of a feminist awakening. That spiritual...

Down in the basement, on a pegboard where saws and hammers once hung, my husband keeps his shrine to the dearly departed. On the wooden board, Mike has taped holy cards from every wake we've attended together, as well as many from long before he met...

I WAS VISITING ZINC SHACK "HOMES" IN A HUGE SQUATter camp in my home Diocese of Rustenburg, South Africa with one of our home-care nurses when I met young mother. She was an economic refugee from a neighboring country, an "illegal" unable to access...

I call them my saints. They are the people who stood along the road to my conversion and walled with me for a while. Without them I never would have arrived at that Easter morning when I was confirmed in the church. Over the last 20 years many have...

IF MOTHER TERESA TOLD YOU TO DO SOMETHING, would you do it? On the last birthday of her life, more than six years ago, Mother Teresa sent a message to Danielle Rose, accompanied by a rose made of frosting from her cake. "Give this rose to Danielle,"...