As we celebrate Mother’s Day this year, take heart, all you moms. Like Saint Zelie Martin, the mother of Saint Teresa of Lisieux, there will be times of struggle. Like Mary, there will be times of sacrifice and pain. But you play
It can only be hoped that the outpouring of generosity and prayers that formed the response to the fire at Notre Dame will be matched in Sri Lanka, where so much more than a building was affected.
In the discernment and embracing of God’s plan for each of us, we are able to serve the Church, the world and, of course, God, to the fullest.
There is no one target, there is no one perpetrator, and there is seemingly no one who is safe. Nothing is untouchable. Nothing is sacred. But there is plenty that is reprehensible -- and it is important for people of faith to
The staff of Intellectual Takeout (intellectualtakeout.org), a website promoting the rational discussion of a wide range of cultural issues, has launched The Charlemagne Institute, a nonprofit educational institution “rooted in the Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman tradition [working] to lay the intellectual groundwork for the
Other than the extreme damage done to victims of clergy abuse and their families, perhaps the biggest fallout from the devastating and seemingly interminable clergy abuse crisis has been a severing of trust between lay Catholics and Church leadership. This is not
A recent document released by the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is just the latest reminder — as if another were needed — of the stark divisions that currently exist within the Church. A “Manifesto
In recent years, the longstanding March for Life has received considerably less media coverage than it did back in the 1980s and ’90s. Until 36 hours after this year’s March for Life ended, it appeared that the pattern would continue. And then
As we celebrate Christmas this year, perhaps the world can draw some hope from the goings-on in Bethlehem. We’re not talking about the nativity of Our Lord that took place in that holy city 2,000 years ago. We’re talking about what is
One of the riches of a universal Church is that it contains a fullness of traditions that inform and enlighten each other. This is especially true of Byzantine Catholics, who worship with the rites of the Eastern Orthodox while in communion with