Harry Potter and his lessons on “defense against the dark arts” have nothing on our defender, St. Michael the Archangel. For me, Michael almost got lost in the...
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In early December, just after the film version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe opened, my daughter Sophie’s second-grade teacher organized and...
The coffee mug on sale in the gift shop said it all: “Do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa. For $5.95 plus tax I could hold the key to a holy life...
When my Uncle Joe died a few years ago, his Pentecostal sisters from northeastern Tennessee insisted that the casket remain open during the service, despite...
The popularity of The Davinci Code has spawned endless speculation about whether there’s a kernel of truth in this work of fiction: Did Jesus and Mary...
On the evening of March 24, 1980, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador was shot and killed while celebrating Mass in the chapel on the grounds of...
On a Sunday afternoon in spring, in the fading light of a church sacristy, a friend told me he was going away for a few weeks. And he needed me to know why...
Catholic social teaching has been called the church’s best-kept secret, but the biggest secret of all may be the church’s teaching on racism, says...
The other day my friend Alicia was telling me how sad and angry she felt when Hurricane Jeanne hit the poorest country of the Western hemisphere, Haiti...
“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t go to yours,” said Yogi Berra. You have to admit Yogi had a point, in his inimitable fashion. My...
