Only the Easter Story gives the Christmas Story its fullest meaning. My 2019 Christmas Story was a testimony to God Who never abandons us. This
Not too long ago, Catholics and non-Catholics alike were scandalized by a one-of-a-kind news story of a Louisiana Catholic priest performing and filming immoral acts
At the end of Sacred Triduum 2019, my altar server son received a Thank You card from the parish. Inside the envelope was also a
The soul, as St. Teresa of Avila put it, is a castle in which there are many rooms, just as in heaven where there are many
Last year, during a Secular Franciscan formation gathering, participants reflected on what we would call our Portiuncula—our own “Little Portion”. The exercise was creative, especially
Just as Christ, the Lamb of God, was both the victim assuming the sin of all humanity, as well as the priest offering the sacrifice
Venerable Fulton Sheen in Those Mysterious Priests speaks about the “great divorce of priest and victim.” We Catholics have so long been exposed to this
Even though Catholic life in the United States is gradually beginning to bloom again as we return to ‘normal’, the faithful will always treasure the
My good pastor adopted a dog from the local Humane Society on Saint Patrick’s Day. With public Masses suspended throughout the diocese, he found some
Today, the loss of spiritual reading is a reality across the Christian spectrum. Bible study and interpretation used to be a Protestant thing to do.
“God meets you where you are at” is an insidious spiritual fallacy of our modern times. it is a platitude amenable to various personal interpretations
For us, the birth of our son is a Christmas story about God coming to be with us in a special way and teaching us
The threads of the history of the whole of humankind are tied anew in that house [the Holy House of Loreto]. It is the Shrine
The unselfish act of donating ones’ organs and/or body after death is a great gesture of impoverishing oneself before one’s Maker while making a life-giving
Is today’s Church suffering from a ‘Mother Wound’? Recently, following a Mass to celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in my parish, I
Pew Research’s recent study revealing that a majority Catholics do not believe in the Real Presence but instead believe that consecrated bread and wine are
Thomas Merton wrote, “The world is a sacred vessel”. However, the truth is the sacred vessels at the Eucharistic Altar hold our World, our Everything
When my husband Prabhu and I decided to marry, it seemed all there was to surmount was the issue of approval of his Hindu parents.
About a year ago, I elicited some raised eyebrows in a group after sharing that my first babysitter was a Capuchin friar—the priest who baptized
