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Look honestly at a typical Sunday. The soccer team has a 9 a.m. game, so the family skips Mass. One of you has to work through the weekend because there's a big contract bid due next week. The other worked late almost every night this week and wants a day off from everything. The kids have friends, games, and streaming. You did not plan to push God off the calendar. It was more like letting the calendar make the choice for you. And nobody--not you, not your kids, not your spo

"I feel like I’m doing everything with the kids," Maria told her husband late one evening. Dan didn't hear her exhaustion. He heard an accusation, and he had his defense ready. “Tuesday I did bath time. Wednesday I did pickup. Saturday I took them to soccer.” Every item is true. Maria is silenced, and Dan feels a small surge of satisfaction: case closed. Until a few weeks later, when Dan forgot to call the plumber. Maria produced a text from March in which he promised he woul

There's a scene in Steven Spielberg's new film Disclosure Day in which the heroine, Jane, leads the protagonist to a convent where they can temporarily hide from their pursuers. He is stunned to find that she was once a novitiate. "You lost your faith?" he asks her. "No," she says. "I lost my calling." As Jane realizes, losing your faith and losing your calling are not the same thing. A person can go on believing in the value of their marriage while quietly drifting from the