WASHINGTON — One week before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shook hands at the historic summit on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, 100 Catholics representing different perspectives huddled at Georgetown University in Washington.
They were there to...
Three adult children of a recently deceased woman were sitting with me planning the funeral. As we looked at options for the Gospel reading for the Mass, one daughter suggested the first option, the beatitudes in Chapter 5 of...
In his newest apostolic exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate" ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), Pope Francis offers a road map for simple ways that everyday people can be holy. While few of us are in a position where we risk dying...
Christ's incarnation troubles some Christians. It almost always did.
Today, as in past centuries, some find it difficult to accept the Incarnation fully. They doubt, perhaps, that God really could or would become man.
Perhaps, too, they wonder why on earth...
Pope Francis' new apostolic exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate,"
starkly challenges today's Christians to take the dignity of all human life seriously, viewing it in light of Christ's incarnation.
The pope offers a road map for simple ways that everyday people can...
VATICAN CITY — How is it that God in heaven can hear the cries of the poor, but so many people watching or standing nearby either cannot or just do not care, Pope Francis asked.
People must make “a serious...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Changes in language to clarify several sections of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” were approved during the spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The changes are the...
11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Ez 17:22-24
Psalm 92:2-3, 13-16
2) 2 Cor 5:6-10
Gospel: Mk 4:26-34
The fruit of walking by faith
Faith works wonders. To walk by faith, and not by sight, is one of the greatest challenges and joys of the...
NEW YORK -- First off, to answer everyone's question about "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (Focus), the cheerful and reverent documentary about Fred Rogers, creator and host of the PBS stalwart "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood": Will it make you cry?
That's...
VATICAN CITY -- With the help of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a 15th-century copy of a letter Christopher Columbus sent to his royal patrons describing the riches of the New World has been returned to its rightful...