
For All the Saints
This is a day in which we remember the thousands of canonized saints who made it – men and women, boys and girls just like

This is a day in which we remember the thousands of canonized saints who made it – men and women, boys and girls just like

Over the course of the past month, I have embarked on an intense spiritual retreat. I have often written about how the Lord has blessed

If we accept the challenge of being a missionary Church, a Church which constantly goes forth to the world and, especially, to the peripheries of

Upon personal introspection, I have come to notice my immediate impulse to adopt a “sorry for you” face when first getting to know a person

A Few thoughts on healing and reconciliation in general. What obscures the process of healing and reconciliation is often a bad spirit. St. Paul, as

Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. —1 Peter 5:8 In my

This fall I have been working at CatholicVote.org. While we do a lot of different things, one of the things we are best known for

On my pilgrimage in France: I find it funny that most people come to France primarily for the Paris attractions. Not for my group though

Did you know that you’re in the Bible? Yes, you! Despite the fact that it was written two thousand years ago, YOU might have made

Dear Fathers, In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis wrote, “The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven

In the struggle for life, talking about God is indispensable. Only in this way does the value of the weak, the disabled, the nonproductive, the

As I reflect on the several years spent as a practicing Catholic teacher in the hustle and bustle of the New York City public school

We are made for love and connection and justice and nonviolence, but at every turn and in every way we are twisted in the direction

Among philosophers, arguments for the existence of God can become technically difficult, fast. But the general insight propelling most of them is not impossible to

The Church is not called to micromanage consciences – because a conscience is a throne for Christ living in a unique way in the individual,

When Mary of Bethany anointed Jesus’s feet with pure nard, I can only conclude that it is out of great love and gratitude for Jesus. Jesus,

Recently in an interview Cardinal Sarah said, “The West refuses to receive, and will accept only what it constructs for itself. Because it is a

But Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” —John 1:46 “Come and see.” For Nathanael

I died on December 15, 2006. On that day I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. Although it appeared that my life was sentenced by

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the customs post. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up

A great push has been put together within the Church towards a reinvigorated attempt to “evangelize” which is a Mission of the Church. This must