One thing I didn’t expect about working at a parish named Our Lady of Sorrows was the frequency with which friends, acquaintances, and strangers, upon hearing...
Author - Teresa Coda
In my years since becoming a parent, I’ve heard myself, not infrequently, repeating the aphorisms and one-liners that formed the soundtrack of my childhood...
The siren call of doting grandparents and a much more affordable cost of living lured my husband and me to migrate from Providence, Rhode Island, where he was...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a dog was outside our property. She had a collar and we took...
Readings (Year A): Zechariah 9:9 – 10Psalms 145:1 – 2, 8-9, 10 – 11, 13 – 14Romans 8:9, 11 – 13Matthew 11:25 – 30...
It crossed my mind recently that what I really need to be the parent I want to be is a personality transplant. When I think of the parents I most admire, in...
I’ve never been one to pray novenas, but I recently downloaded the Hallow app as research for another article I’m writing and, committed to trying out a...
About a decade ago, my maternal grandmother died of Alzheimer’s disease. As her memory faded, so did her knowledge of her friends, husband, and children...
James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Got a burning question? Click here to Ask an Apostle. Q: My brother gave me a too-expensive Christmas present. How do I reciprocate without putting the focus...
