Virtue/Vice

Vice and sin are sexy. Character and virtue… not so much. But where’s the line between them? What exactly is a virtue? Can it be…

Learning to Be Good

As a child, I yearned to be good. Not just pleasant-table-manners good, but profound, give-away-all-your-belongings-like-St.-Francis good. This may surprise anyone who knew me back then,…

Why NFP?

When Mary Alice Teti read Dr. Christine Whelan’s recent article on natural family planning (NFP), she was excited to see such an important issue being…

Blessed Among All Women

Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do. When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of “365…