The Beauty That Will Last: Music, poetry, and a love that outlives exile and dementia
Three Weeks Late and Three Hours in the Birth Canal: My belated birthday, and other stories and poems my mother never let me forget
An Inheritance of Pride: My parents’ acts of courage helped me overcome my own fears
The Real Thing: My father was always himself—especially after his excommunication
Speak Up—Not Everyone Can: Before and after the convent, my Irish mother did not hold back
Rock the Boat (Part One): An Irish nun, a priest, and the defiance of silence in the face of racial injustice—from the Jim Crow South to today
Rock the Boat (Part Two): Finding out my father was on an FBI watch list—Iran, injustice, and the reasons we speak up, then and now
An American Jesuit in Ireland urges the church to welcome LGBT faithful: The Rev. James Martin, a champion of LGBTQ Catholics, headed a conference in Ireland meant to reach out to them
'Hi, Felicia!': This married lesbian mom wants to turn deep-red Alabama seat blue
Entering the Holy Land through the back door: A daily dispatch from a reporting journey to Israel and Palestine
Sufi spirituality transcends religious borders in the Holy Land