Explore the complexities of relationships through a young man's story of his distant father and unexpected connections.

I got a hushed and fevered call one stormy night from Marc, one of my old catechumens. “I have a colleague who’s been making a lot of noise about the Catholic Church,” he said. Marc was a great RCIA ...

Many Protestants claim that when Catholics address priests as “father,” they are engaging in an unbiblical practice that Jesus forbade: “Call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who ...

The moment a child is adopted, her whole life changes; she gets a new name, a new family, and often an entirely new way of life. Yet that legal reality can exist without the child feeling an ...

I remember a scene from a book I once read where a father places his child on a high cabinet, then tells the child to jump into his arms. As the child trustingly launches himself into the air, the ...