On Resurrection Day, Jesus breathed on His disciples, a gesture odd in itself bu...
A few years ago, I travelled to Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, India, to teach class...
Patriotism can be a difficult virtue to practice, but the first step is to reali...
St. Peter wrote to a Christian community that was being persecuted for their fai...
I recently picked up the book Joy Within His House: A Cloistered Nun’s Reflectio...
What happens after we die? Someone once gave examples to help formulate an answe...
Jesus, Scripture, and the Catholic Church teach that water baptism is necessary ...
About twenty years ago, I was at a Mass celebrated by Fr. Richard McAlear, OMI (...
Ascension Sunday presents a paradox: Jesus leaves His apostles for Heaven, but ...
The Church has entered into that liturgical time between Ascension and Pentecost...
One of my tasks while working at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State was to handl...
For several decades now, the landscape of women’s religious life in the United S...
What better way to honor our Blessed Mother and make every single day of the yea...
Every year on May 14th, the Church celebrates the feast of the Apostle who came ...
Almost five years ago, on a beautiful, warm summer evening, while watching our d...
Have you ever noticed how the Ascension is celebrated during a time when many cr...
In his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI looked over the course of his life, b...
St. Teresa of Avila used to carry a small piece of paper in her breviary that li...
I can only imagine the anguish devout Catholic parents must feel when their chil...
The Servant and the Ladder Consider the old moral case condemned by Blessed Inno...
