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This Canadian writer , in a secular paper, argues that they get more out of it than some people may think: Years ago I asked a close friend why she dragged her children to Mass every Sunday. Children in church always look as if they are in the midst of slow-motion fits. They squirm, they…

In Iowa last week, Ash Wednesday became an occasion for trying penitence — and for trying a judge’s patience: The age-old question of separation of church and state played itself out in a Marshall County courtroom Wednesday. After a lunch recess while prosecuting a trial for attempted murder, Assistant County Attorney Paul Crawford returned from…

A columnist who writes from Ohio is using the beginning of Lent to wonder about the great cardio workout people get in church: Before Lent got going, I’d been writing about some of those “edge phenomena” around worship, “adiaphora” or “indifferent things” philosophically and theologically speaking. One was about coming late — or just as…

How do you rebuild a country’s faith after its spiritual infrastructure has been — in essence — destroyed? It’s happening right now in Haiti: Mass at Port-au-Prince’s Sacred Heart Catholic church is held under a UNICEF tarp beside Coleman tents. Open-air, it’s conducted near the statue of the Virgin Mary, one of the few church…
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