When I was asked to produce a few hundred words about Lent, my thoughts turned to the daunting task of coming up...
“Babies are loud, smelly, and expensive, unless you really want one” – this Planned Parenthood billboard ran many years ago and it...
I was 28 years old and living in Austin, Texas, when I got the news: I was going to have a foster...
Earlier this past summer, I was riding shotgun in the lead vehicle of a funeral procession — a position I quite commonly...
An unexpected opportunity for a one-liner Ann Lankford Director of the Office for Catechesis and Evangelization Recently, I returned to my hometown...
By Chris Rogers Director of the Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry The year was 1995. I was a college student...
“Sanctity properly consists in the conformity to God’s will, expressed in a constant and exact fulfillment of the duties of our state...
This short prayer comes from the Eastern Church of the fourth century. It is called the “Jesus prayer,” or the “prayer of...
By Christopher Carstens Our secular culture devotes a great deal of attention to food, with cooking channels and food networks, restaurant commercials...
Thomas Philip Reichenbacher Superintendent of Catholic Schools Days before graduation, when I was principal of Assumption High School, I remember a mom...