Jesus takes His closest friends up a mountain to pray, an action packed with mea...
Among all symbols that have passed through human history, none is more paradoxic...
“I know I’m not supposed to say this, but God’s promises don’t seem to apply to ...
The most striking way I have seen the Church with the sick is in the person of P...
On November 29, 2025, on the eve of the Feast of St. Andrew, Ecumenical Patriarc...
Our liturgical year’s first slice of Ordinary Time has given way to the great se...
Worry is the air in a world of unknowns. We breathe it in as if it were the life...
Having examined St. Francis de Sales’s exhortation to perseverance (in Part Four...
There are many times in our lives when we must make decisions between competing ...
Jesus faces God’s enemy and ours, the one who has hated us from the beginning. G...
As we begin Lent, Christ’s three temptations in the desert give us the pattern b...
I didn’t have a child abuse accusation on my bingo card that morning, but it sho...
Whenever I ask people about their spiritual and moral lives, I usually get answe...
I have been playing “Peek-a-boo” with my young grandchildren lately. They deligh...
Why be Catholic? For many, the answer is deeply personal. For some, the reasons ...
“Dairy Takes Babies From Their Mothers.” A professor I used to know once saw the...
One year during Lent, I decided to follow a daily devotional entitled, Memento M...
Jesus told the crowd listening to Him on a mountain that their righteousness mus...
The Sermon on the Mount raises the moral bar, as it goes beyond the mere letter ...
