LYNDALL BERGER, at sixteen, wrote to her parents for permission to be confirmed. “Are you mad?” Sidney’s gaze was a pair of outspread arms, stopping his wife short whichever way she might turn. “Well, ...

“Is that wedding music I hear” was the opening line of a Top 40 gospel song a few years ago. “There’s a heavenly preparation for the celebration …,” the song goes on, adding that “The bride is adorned ...

I gaze upon the crucifix at Holy Mass, contemplating the image of Christ’s broken body, poured out for the Church, as he is truly present — his body, blood, soul and divinity — on the altar. A sense ...

At the start of an Aug. 23 Catholic wedding in St. Paul, Minnesota, all eyes turned to the back of the church for that iconic moment: the bride’s procession down the aisle with her father, before he ...

One of the reasons Pope Francis' opening ecclesiological statement is significant is that, by restating what the church is at its core, it sets the stage for him to denounce what we might call false ...