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St. Bernadette’s Relics Are Coming to the U.S.

Fourteen-year-old Marie Bernarde “Bernadette” Soubirous had never been considere...

Food, Water, and the Dignity of the Dying: What Catholi...

“What does it mean to feed someone?” Every human being understands, almost insti...

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross on the Power of Hidde...

In the great mystery of God’s plan, it is hidden souls who He uses to unleash su...

A Forgiving Heart Does Not Keep Score: 24th Sunday in O...

This Sunday, Peter asks Jesus how many times he has to forgive a brother who sin...

Would the Resurrection Survive Cross-Examination?

The question posed starts with the standard of proof. A civil verdict requires o...

Accepting God’s Labor Day Gift

In 1894, Labor Day was declared a national holiday. Most worked a six-day work w...

The Hidden Life of Jesus Is the Overlooked Life

I’ll never forget when I once told a relative about a group of cloistered nuns—t...

The Birth of Mary: Reflecting on the Feast Day

Most years, on Mary’s birthday, I’m recuperating from a Labor Day weekend involv...

Writing, Reading, and the Holy Spirit: Icons as Divine ...

In the collection of Eastern monastic writings called the Philokalia, the goal o...

The Devil Never Takes a Day Off: On Speaking Well and H...

Q&A WITH MYSTIC ALICJA LENCZEWSKA, PART 5 Continuing the theme of the fallen ang...

When Priests Leave: Finding a Balance Between Mercy and...

I have watched multiple priests leave the priesthood over the years, including t...

Do We Have Ears to Hear Our Own Correction? 23rd Sunday...

Previously in this Gospel, Jesus has spoken about authority in His Church.  This...

Finding Grace in Parental Failures

Some time ago, I ran into an old friend, and as we were catching up with each ot...

Answering the Universal Call to Holiness with a Rule of...

Over the past sixty years the documents of Vatican II, and indeed the council it...

A Saint Film to Inspire Others: Young Carlo

Why is it so hard to make a genuinely well-crafted saint film? This is a questio...

Learning to Become: Fulton Sheen and the Beatitudes

Over the years, I have had the joy of republishing many of Fulton J. Sheen’s boo...

“A Pathway Toward Healing and Hope”: Praying with the B...

Back in January, I was invited to lead a day-long workshop for Catholic school l...

Feel Good Religion Won’t Save You—The Cross Will

Have you ever been duped? Fooled, tricked, deceived, conned, swindled? “You dupe...

Why Beauty is Bringing Young Catholics Home

Modernity has trained us to use our senses for consumption rather than contempla...

Get Behind Me, Satan: Why Does Jesus Rebuke Peter?

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time In last Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus called Peter “the ro...