The New York Times best-seller The Da Vinci Code is all over the media. It’s on the minds and in the conversations of many of your parishioners. Now there are two new resources to answer all their questions and help your parishioners understand the difference between fact and fiction. De-Coding Da... (more)

The plight of children waiting to be adopted is a challenge to the church. Old Testament models of a broad sense of kinship and the welcome of the stranger and New Testament language about our salvation being ‘adoption as sons’ together assert that ties of love are stronger than ties of blood. Yet o... (more)

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU ANYWAY? Why don’t you think before you act? Are you even listening? Can’t you just relax and take it easy? These are the kinds of comments and criticisms that adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder hear again and again. So what’s the problem? The truth is... (more)

Americans are perhaps the most openly and energetically religious of all the peoples among the developed nations. Americans are religious in all the obvious ways, belonging to churches, synagogues and mosques as well as nurturing private spiritualities. But they are religious also in public ways, ai... (more)