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