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The election of a new pope this past spring has inspired numerous pieces of journalism about our Church. Looking beyond the pieces

It happened again. An important email never made its way to me because, en route to my cluttered inbox, it took an

On Aug. 14, 1941, Saint Maximilian Kolbe died a martyr in the German death camp of Auschwitz. Two weeks earlier, Kolbe had

The petals were dusty yellow and flecked with white. They emerged with timid strength from a nearly invisible crack in the blacktop

I was raised in the Catholic faith, baptized as an infant at two months old, and later received my first communion in

“Have you ever tried on a pair of eyeglasses and had them make everything look blurry? That’s because the prescription wasn’t right

The recent offer of self-deportation assistance by the Department of Homeland Security is a first for our nation, but it replicates the

Many years ago, Eric A. Clayton’s spiritual director introduced him to the idea that he is beloved by God. Eric calls this

When Steve Guttenberg’s father, Stan, was diagnosed with kidney failure requiring dialysis, the actor would drive 400 miles from Los Angeles to

July 11 is the Feast of Saint Benedict of Nursia, the father of Western monasticism. He wrote his rulebook for monastic life around