As the holiday season approaches, many parishes are undoubtedly preparing to launch annual gift drives to mark the season. Some will hang ornaments on a tree...
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Readings (Year B) Isa. 63:16B–17, 19B; 64:2–7Ps. 80:2–3, 15–16, 18–191 Cor. 1:3–9Mark 13:33–37 Reflection: Worth the wait There is a certain starkness to the...
When Ann Patchett wrote the memoir Truth & Beauty (Harper Perennial) about her 17-year friendship with brilliant, troubled Lucy Grealy, Clemson University...
We’ve all heard of Squanto, the English-speaking Wampanoag Indian of Thanksgiving fame. No one forgets how he taught the Pilgrims to survive by adding fish...
Looking for a meaningful gift for kids and teens this Christmas? Christmas may be just around the corner, but there’s still time to find something that will...
Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. This becomes most obvious to us when we experience an inner conflict of desires. Perhaps our desire for a more...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: COVID wedding? My friend is getting married this season, and I’m nervous about attending due to COVID...
The title “prince of the church” carries with it the sound of trumpets, the flash of a ring, the image of royalty. But Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, far from...
Read Blessed Are the Nones By Stina Kielsmeier-Cook (InterVarsity Press, 2020) More than 40 percent of marriages are interfaith, according to a recent Pew...
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint and patron of immigrants, labored for 28 years in the United States and South America, establishing some...