For decades, debates over sexuality and the end of life have been framed as sett...
After the forty days required for purification came to an end, Mary went to the ...
In American culture, the second day of February is Groundhog Day, especially pop...
I recently came across an old woman begging at the roadside in the intense Manil...
A priest friend recently expressed his concern about the increasing fluidity of ...
G.K. Chesterton’s classic The Everlasting Man was originally written as an alter...
In his everyday spirituality, St. Francis de Sales counsels us to begin at the b...
Some time ago, I had the practice of reading the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5-7) o...
When I used to read parables like the Prodigal Son or the Workers in the Vineyar...
Sometimes, forgiveness is easy. A person makes an honest mistake, perhaps one yo...
Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you cannot enter t...
With the data now available, we realized just how important the early years of l...
For those who seek to convey the Gospel through writing, preaching, or teaching,...
In 1960 a woman named Margaret Sanger threatened to “find another place to live”...
Our culture goes so far as to actually paint evil as pleasing to God, such as in...
When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew to Galilee. Danger dro...
Breaking Open the Word “Christ is the Light of the world.” What is contained in ...
Everything and everyone is oriented toward something. A hammer is oriented towar...
Where is the lamb? That is what Isaac asked his father Abraham, shortly before...