Amy Welborn paid a visit to her husband’s grave, and came back with this stunning memory: Sitting there, nothing was revealed to me that I did not already know. Not really. I did not feel closer, and in fact I might even have felt a little further away. Further away than I do at home,…

I know I should probably be shocked and wringing my hanky into knots over this. It’s clearly not what most of us would have in mind as the proper way for beginning the celebration of a sacrament. (N.B., it wasn’t a Catholic wedding.) But: I loved it anyway. I couldn’t stop grinning. Married life is…

With the passing of celebrated storyteller Frank McCourt this week, the world lost more than just a gifted writer. It also lost someone with a deep and complicated connection to the Catholic faith. Peter Duffy notes in the Wall Street Journal: Peter Quinn, the novelist and a practicing Catholic, wrote in an email that his…

Here’s something you don’t hear about every day: Roman Catholic Franciscan friars are to open Poland’s first privately-run Hebrew academy in October with the approval of the country’s chief rabbi and a Polish cardinal, its rector said Tuesday. “We’ve started recruiting and there’s a lot of interest. We’re thinking of accepting 45 students for a…

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