Walking the walk has always been my metaphor of choice for growing closer to God, for following the path to a sturdier faith, for keeping my feet on holy ground. Who am I if I am unable to walk?

Based on my personal experience, I have spent years trying to help women find healing, acceptance, reconciliation and hope after making one of the most excruciating and difficult decisions of their lives.

Thérèse of Lisieux and St. Ignatius helped draw me away from scrupulosity—and into accepting God’s love.

It is right and just to feel anger at people like the Parkland shooter. What do we do with that anger, though?

We will all be a lot better off when fewer distinctions are made between us clergy and everyone else.

As a doctoral student in theology studying Islam and Christianity, I have come across portrayals of Adam that are quite different from the one many Catholics know.