Effie Caldarola, Cathoilc News Service

Sunday Mass is crowded. Slowly, beginning in the front pews, people stand and head toward the altar. You know the moment. Everyone is lining...

My 4-year-old granddaughter Charlotte is allowed to play with her family Christmas creche. The figures are virtually unbreakable, and her folks don’t care if...

BY EFFIE CALDEROLA My husband and I raised three kids in Alaska. It was a great place to live, but it was a long way from...

Angie Wingert has been part of the leadership team of the St. Wenceslaus Parish pro-life group in Omaha, Nebraska, for the past 15 years,...

The charges leveled against a former cardinal, Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, are sickening and almost unbearable to read. It's horrible enough that former seminarians...

Any parent who ever grappled with the "new" math knows that education often falls victim to the latest trend. But one growing trend in Catholic...

Dear Lord, It's hard to believe that I'm graduating. The years have flown by. I find myself consumed by so many different emotions: joy, fear,...

Joe Young spent last summer on a mission trip to Magadan, a city in the Russian Far East, where an American priest serves a...

I saw a lot of fantastic sights on a recent trip to Ireland. But it was only after I came home that I realized...

Every Saturday, a local newspaper features excerpts from Sunday homilies, including occasional Catholic ones, in a section called “From the Pulpit.” Easter weekend featured a...