Thérèse Martin was only 15 when she entered the cloistered Carmelite monastery of Lisieux in Normandy, and only 24 when she died there in 1873. Today, she is...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
Pope Leo XIV has been speaking forcefully and persistently against the United States’ military actions in Iran, addressing not just war in the abstract, but...
The Catholic Church’s principles on immigration have their roots in scripture, tradition, and magisterial teaching. Both the Hebrew scriptures and Christian...
The last time I attended a Mass in the older Latin rite, it was for the funeral of a friend. Tom was a difficult man in many ways, a war veteran whose stories...
Readings (Year A): Sirach 3:2 – 6, 12 – 14Psalm 128:1 – 2, 3, 4 – 5Colossians 3:12 – 21 or 3:12 – 17Matthew 2:13 –...
I like snakes, which is a good thing, since I’ve encountered a lot of them, often in unexpected places. Most memorable was the black rat snake that got into...
When a hockey player at an elite Catholic prep school dies of suicide, leaving a cryptic note referencing the death of another player 20 years earlier, student...
Across the plateaus, south of the county seat, a monster power shovel the height of a 20-story building loomed on the horizon. Its name was the Silver Spade...
Several times throughout the day, the bells from the Camaldolese monastery on the hill rang out across the fields where I worked. The sound was almost...
