Twenty Something | Alaskan cruise led to a path to the priesthood
Christina Capecchi Matthew Bearth was 17 when he set out on an Alaskan cruise that changed the course of his life and led him to the seminary. Today the 20-year-old college junior loves to recount...
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Twenty Something | Reluctant leaders, divine surprises and a resigning pope
By Christina Capecchi "It was 1415," my friend corrected her husband over a dinner of wings and beer on that stunning Monday when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation.We were discussing, like...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | The duty of delight: finding joy in obligation
Christina Capecchi Father Dave Korth's dad had been declining in health for five years. That was the slow, haunting grip of dementia. The stories Leonard loved to tell had started to unravel....
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TWENTY SOMETHING | 'The vocation of love': lessons from Mom's retirement
Christina Capecchi Moving into a senior home can be the ultimate indignity.With the hefty monthly bill comes a hundred little losses – of the car keys, of the backyard, of all the familiar nooks and...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | The art of saying no
Christina Capecchi Somewhere along the line, as college-admission rates plunged and smartphones proliferated, "busy" became code for "important." We got the sense that doing more means doing better....
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Door-to-door seminarian finding new roads
Christina Capecchi Going door to door to tell strangers about Catholicism and his plan to become a priest had to be the most daunting assignment Neil Bakker had ever received.The 34-year-old from...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Waiting for a baby: On Advent and adoption
Christina Capecchi For years, folks told Mike and Maria Slavik that their blue colonial-style house looked like a Christmas card. Maria would be out mowing the lawn in the middle of July and someone...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Come in from the cold: finding mercy in the city
Christina Capecchi It's 15 below with a wind chill of minus 39 when I arrive at the cathedral. The holy water is partly frozen.Perched atop Summit Hill in St. Paul, Minn., the Cathedral of St. Paul is...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | The call of the birds: Slowing down and tuning in
Christina Capecchi "The only essential equipment for seeing birds is a pair of eyes. Good ears are a help too."The first edition of "Birds: A Guide To The Most Familiar American Birds" smells like an...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | The nun who kissed Elvis, ditched Hollywood and found her...
Christina Capecchi Dolores Hart was 19 when she filmed her first movie scene: kissing Elvis Presley.The aspiring actress was dressed in a polka-dot dress with her honey-brown hair swept in a ponytail....
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Olympic inspiration: waiting for that unifying moment
By Christina Capecchi It was a rough July, on a national scale, marked by division: shootings, protests, funerals, conventions.Whether you tuned into Trump and Clinton, clicked over to the late-night...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Listening at the keyholes: how to love better and learn more
By Christina Capecchi When two 20-somethings slung a wire across rooftops in Boston, they were hoping to hear each other's voices transmitted across that line. It worked, and they did, but in the...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | A cure for election overload, a quest for peace
By Christina Capecchi It's almost as if November's Mass readings were written for election-weary Catholics, with their foreboding tones and calls for "perseverance" and "endurance" amid distress."They...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Prayer box taps into spiritual hunger
By Christina Capecchi The box went up on a Monday evening in August, a plain white box nestled inside a little wooden tent and mounted atop a fence."Prayer requests" is written the side of the tent in...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | The pursuit of happiness in the new year
By Christina Capecchi Don Currey was a 30-year-old graduate student when he was responsible for cutting down the world's oldest tree.A geography student at the University of North Carolina, Don wanted...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Angels among us: Helping leads to healing
By Christina Capecchi Spend a day in a surgery waiting room and you'll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy.Strangers gather for a host of reasons with a common cause: to sit beneath the slowest...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | ‘Greater horizons’: Tending to each other and our common home
By Christina Capecchi "One should leave a field better than you found it," an old farmer's saying went.Sometimes that called for heavy lifting. Other times it just meant picking up a rock as you...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | Evangelization by hitchhiking
By Christina Capecchi The Little Poor Friars and Poor Nuns of Jesus and Mary, a new religious community with a long name, dress and live like St. Francis of Assisi: in poverty, entirely dependent on...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | A big win for the little guy
By Christina Capecchi Art Cullen may have his gripes about Catholicism, but he can't deny its influence on the work that last month won him a Pulitzer Prize.The story went viral: Small-town newspaper...
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TWENTY SOMETHING | ‘Let your yes mean yes’: Honesty with God and others
By Christina Capecchi Rachel Gardner has a bad habit, shared by many young adults: She says "yes" when she ought to say "no."A friend might ask to do lunch on Wednesday."I say, 'Of course,'" Rachel...
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