Tag: Catholic

Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Maryland after her water broke. It was weeks before the baby would have any chance of survival, and the patient’s wishes were clear, she recalled: “Why am I staying pregnant then? What&...

It’s still surprising to me I started doing reiki and attending pagan festivals. I really didn’t know what reiki was until I sat down in level one class. I knew it was something vaguely related to energy and healing and that it was practiced by people who smell like patchouli and talk a ...

n his often-told story, back in 2001 she was deeply distressed over his religious status. As he puts it, she prayed “to be given whatever suffering needed so that I would be granted sufficient grace to revert.” That is, she’d asked God to afflict her if her son would be ‘s...

The Evangelists was by the end of Percival’s life — he died at 49 of cirrhosis and anemia at his country estate in Chester County — in a changing neighborhood where demographic patterns did not support the ongoing existence of a parish of Protestant Episcopalians. Survivi...