“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” These words keep us fingering our rosary beads, making novenas and reading from our prayer books. Yet, diseases still rage.
In her latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Gretchen Crowe writes that “as we have navigated the uncertainty of the past several months, many have made the case that this can and should be a time of opportunity and grace, if we
In the Opening the Word for the Third Sunday of Easter, Timothy P. O’Malley writes of Jesus’ obedience, his love unto the end, which is itself the very possibility of God, the impossibility that death can reign over the human family. This
Remembering St. John Paul II and the 15th anniversary of his death, Pope Francis encouraged people to pray for his intercession and trust in Divine Mercy, especially during these "difficult days" of the coronavirus pandemic. St. John Paul, who, after a long
Without the comfort and routine of Holy Week and Easter Sunday Mass, many people are feeling uncertain about how to live out their faith during this time of pandemic. But as an Easter people, we have hope. Assistant editor Ava Lalor writes:
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about the Hard as Nails mission at St. Matthew Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dominican Father Peter John Cameron’s approach to the mission is, as St. Paul, that going to people in his weakness and fear and trembling,
Like the apostles who brought spiritual and physical healing to those in need, Christians are called to tend to the wounds of the suffering and the downtrodden, Pope Francis said.
This is the second of two articles on bridging the abortion issue with compassion. If advocates for legal abortion are correct when they cite certain studies, then virtually no woman who has an abortion ever regrets it. But the reality is quite
Question: Can our pets love us? — Paul VanHoudt, Erie, Colorado Answer: No, our pets cannot love us in any human sense of the word. Love requires freedom and a rational soul. It is clear that pets, especially dogs and (sometimes) cats,
Question: In Col 1:24, we read about our sufferings “filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ.” What does it mean that something was lacking in Christ’s affliction? Does this refer to redemptive suffering and, if so, is the service