COMMENTARY: Since his parents ultimately raised the Holy Father, it’s hard to disagree with the Pope’s advice, and it ...

The most suitable place for prayer is in the Church -- the house of prayer -- made holy by special blessings and, above all, by the Real Presence of Jesus dwelling in the Tabernacle.

As deportation activity intensifies, some immigrants along the Texas border are unwilling to leave their homes, even for ...

Before dawn, in the solitude of his upstairs room, Anil Ambalal Patel prepared to say a last goodbye to the couple who ...

I admit I never actually saw Jesus in Gary’s coffee shop. But Gary saw him — or felt his presence or heard his quiet voice — ...

Give careful thought to your ways. Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take ...

Our contemporary, the Anglican priest and poet R. S. Thomas (1913-2000), suggested something similar in a poem he so ...

When any of the faithful wish to mark their moving into a new home with a religious celebration, the parish priest (pastor) and his associates should gladly cooperate. The occasion provides a ...

Family vacations are meant to be a time of rest, bonding, and memory-making—but they can also bring stress, tension, and exhaustion. Between packing, traveling, differing expectations, and unexpected ...

A migrant detention center, known widely as “Alligator Alcatraz,” opened a little more than two weeks ago and most days since ...

Numbers 35:11 wear masks and carry guns. Let us return the coldness of ice with the coldness of ice. Let us freeze it into ...