By Grace Siener Faith develops the lives and personalities of people across the globe. Once one of those lost in an ocean of beliefs, I’m now finding my own path. After a decade-long journey, I officially became Catholic at this year’s Easter Vigil. My father (Joseph Siener), a man of …

Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century By Melanie McDonagh | Yale University Press | 368 Pages | $38 In England, the road to Rome runs through Birmingham. So might one conclude from reading Melanie McDonagh’s fascinating new book, Converts: From …

“You can tell they’re going to ask for money when they use the word ‘stewardship,’” my friend Gene said as he nudged me with his elbow from the pew behind me. He wasn’t wrong. It’s common to equate the idea with donating, but in fact generosity is a fruit of …

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. You’ve probably heard that hundreds of times. It’s the beginning of the greatest text ever written, John’s Gospel, but what does it actually mean? More specifically, what does the word “Word” mean? How …

Our Lady of the Sign by Abigail Favale | Ignatius, 2026 | 224 pages | $17.95 “I don’t suppose there’s any way I can talk you out of it?” The gas station attendant’s question comes at Simone’s last stop on her journey back to the remote farmhouse she hasn’t seen …

Sacred Heart Church in Dayton is home of the Dayton Vietnamese Catholic community and is served by the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CRM, called the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix until 2017), a religious order formed in Vietnam in the 1940s. About half of the order’s members …

My dad passed away almost 13 years ago. The raw impact has dulled with time, but the reality that someone so essential is gone remains a painfully unflinching reality. My oldest son vaguely remembers him, but to my four other children, Pop Pop is a character in beloved stories from …

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (Gn 1:26-27). What does it mean to be made in the image of the God …

On most Sundays at St. Maximillian Kolbe Parish, my family sits facing a stained glass window of Fr. Kolbe. The window contains a constellation of symbols representing the events of his life; from well-known facts (his Auschwitz uniform) to those lesser known (his time in Nagasaki). At the top of …