This third part presents the final stages of the road to Calvary. We meet Jesus at the top of the hill. Station 9: Jesus Falls
As the season of Lent nears its end, I look back to evaluate my Lenten journey. Did I make real sacrifices? Did my prayer life
After the meeting with Mary, the next few stations show us God’s interactive love with a number of His beings – Simon, Veronica, and the
When I asked my daughter what I should write about this month she said: “The reading from Sunday’s Mass.” This is the story of the
The Season of Lent 2022 now draws to an end. Mother Church has presented us with opportunities to communally participate in the devotion of the
I have lost count of the number of homilies in which I have been told that (a) Jesus was among the poorest of the poor
I grew up in a world of violence, violence at home, violence at school, violence in the neighborhood, and before receiving the sacrament of Baptism
After keeping the ritual of waving palm fronds on Palm Sunday to commemorate Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Christian believers (the practicing, the nominal, and
Catholics, in fact everyone, should be concerned about ‘The Great Reset.’ It is not a conspiracy theory. It is very real. And its aim really
I place this before you. You are free to accept it as a mystery or to call it nonsense and dismiss it as meaningless. Choose
Two months ago a good friend’s mother died, less than twenty four hours after my own father-in-law passed away. We lived in the same area,
Besides giving us Gregorian Chant, Pope St. Gregory the Great gave us the Roman Canon. And up to 1970, the only canon used during the
What is prayer and how ought we to pray? It is nearly impossible to hear a homily or read a religious article without receiving the
There is a kind of ‘game plan’ in the series of Sunday gospel readings during Lent. The readings start with events from the life of
Having moved to a new state this winter, I am participating in this spring’s 40 Days for Life vigils at a different Planned Parenthood site
This is a question about the specifically religious and moral factors which impact upon Christian decisions about “personal appearance.” It is less interested in the
And if Christ has not been raised, then empty [too] is our preaching; empty, too, your faith….and if Christ has not been raised, your faith
If you have studied Catholic apologetics at all, you almost certainly know that one of the biggest differences between Catholicism and Protestantism lies in our
In a recent Crisis article, Kennedy Hall tells us that he is “done with tolerance”. He goes on to point out that words, adopted by
I met Saint Mother Teresa as a reporter when I covered her trip to Toronto; she had a profound effect not only on my life
Woman has a genius all her own, which is vitally essential to both society and the Church. (Pope John Paul II, Angelus Message, July 23,
Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame (Luke 14:21). The
