Although Roman collars, habits and wedding rings are widely recognizable signs of the wearer’s life commitment, these visual markers are customs, not requirements (except in…
As a Paulist seminarian Tom Gibbons has spent the past three years immersed in the academic study required of any man who will be ordained…
I have never technically been a New Yorker. Even though my parents both grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Northern New Jersey—the…
“Make no mistake” a priest friend of mine said to me during a recent phone call “it’s a disaster.” I had called to wish him…
Before the Vagina Monologues even opened on my Catholic college campus last year, the campus had been buzzing with concern. Fordham University pulled funding because…
