What’s your main role during the holiday season? Are you the host or the guest? Either way, hospitality takes center stage for many of us in the final weeks of...
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Where would we be these days without Zoom? Or video telephony, to be precise: the ability to gather virtually with people in various locations and to see and...
A long time ago in a Midwestern state far, far away, I gave a talk in a parish gymnasium. A crowd of patient parents, squirming children, and older folks with...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify One of the best-known of Jesus’ parables is the story commonly referred to as the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” The...
Our names matter. Parents give names to their children to mark them as individuals who are known and loved. When people forget your name, you sense they have...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify “As in all the churches of the saints, women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak...
The saying that “laughter is the best medicine” is not without wisdom. Laughter, goodness, beauty, and healing often go together. Yet, we Catholics rarely seem...
Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead Sunday after a Russian bomb flattened a school sheltering about 90 people in its basement. . . . The governor of Luhansk...
We live in the land of the free. And thank God for it. Yet as we celebrate our nation’s independence once more with generous pyrotechnics and prodigious flag...
During the first Christmas of the pandemic, I discovered a little-known nativity meditation penned by Jean Paul Sartre while he was a German prisoner of war in...
