St. John Bosco, sometimes called Don Bosco, is a saint often revered as a patron of Catholic school teachers.  It is fortuitous then,...

2024 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel: Mark 1:29-39 (Christ took away our infirmities and bore our diseases.) On leaving the...

Today the Church honors Saints Timothy and Titus. Both of these men were converted to Christianity in the first century by Saint Paul....

Films or movies as forms of communication and/or storytelling occupy an important place in contemporary culture. They are the fruit of...

As we remember the Conversion of Saint Paul, it is important for us to consider what “conversion” is and how it relates to Saint...

Don’t we believe in the separation of church and state? Why a day of prayer for the legal protection of the unborn? The Constitution of...

In a world filled with distractions and uneasiness with silence, today’s saint has much to say to us. Often referred to as the father of...

The season of college visits and applications can be a complicated time for the parent-child relationship. There is a child’s growing...

The Feast of the Baptism of our Lord is an invitation to understand this event in history that we liturgically remember and to allow the...

The Feast of the Epiphany was once considered the second most important holy day on the Church calendar after Easter.  It was deemed as...

Thrust into the middle of Church politics, these two friends supported each other defending truth and serving the poor.

Some of my earliest memories are of my mother: singing my younger brother and I to sleep, teaching me my prayers. Along with my brother,...

As Catholic Christians, we continue to enter more deeply into the Christmas season. The Feast of the Holy Family is part of the Christmas...

The Church herself is a sojourner in a foreign world.  In no story is this more apparent than in that of Saint Thomas Becket.  Heads of...

In the midst of the joyful celebrations of Christmas, the Church annually inserts the Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28. This...

Christians have been celebrating the feast of St. John the Evangelist on December 27th at least as far back as the 400s. According to St....

Secular culture began its variation of Christmas around the day following Thanksgiving and now sees Christmas as over. Trees are being...

Certainly, there are many, far more qualified than I am, who have attempted to answer this question: “What is the meaning of the child in...

Do you think things are bad today in the Church? Wait until you hear about the life of St. Peter Canisius. Born in 1521 in Holland, Peter...

On December 17th the Church begins the “O Antiphons.” In terms of Advent preparation, it means that Christmas is near. The O Antiphons...