I’ve been thinking about life-changing moments. Those moments that profoundly change your world and your perspective, and how some happen...

Last week it became public knowledge that Fr. Frank, the Vice President of the Paulist Fathers, had been suspended from his priestly...

We are often told that one of the most important ways to stay healthy is to keep moving - not to become sedentary. But human nature is...

If you are like me, you may be emotionally and spiritually exhausted from the animosity and polarization that exists in our society and...

Abortion is the loudest, most contentious topic in American politics and culture today. For the American Catholic Church, abortion has...

Last week the CDC announced that the U.S. is out of the pandemic stage of the coronavirus. We are beginning to stick our heads outside of...

The older I get, the more violence disturbs me. Every weeknight, I take my psychic temperature to see if I can tolerate watching the...

Civil Administration Building, Vatican City For many Catholics, when we think of the Vatican, we imagine St. Peter’s Basilica with its...

The universal Catholic Church is currently engaged in a massive world-wide undertaking. Pope Francis has called for a synod, which is a...

In his Wednesday general audience a few weeks ago, Pope Francis talked about declining fertility rates, especially in developing...

I have never been attracted to saying the rosary. That said, I love rosary beads. There are five sets in my nightstand that I have...

Our parish grammar school had a long-time first grade teacher who developed a method of classroom management that bordered on genius. ...

I’ve had the pleasure of co-leading two retreats recently: one for women and the other for men. When I introduced myself, I mentioned...

Emerson said that life is a succession of lessons that must be lived in order to be understood. Religion is the same way. Here are 5...

Today I want to highlight three practical aspects of Catholicism that mean the world to me. Retreat Houses Dotted across this country and...

When my daughters were little, we stayed away from Barbie dolls. They were too sexualized for my taste. The girls grew up with lots of...

Not long ago, I spent a weekend with my son and daughter-in-law in Concord, Massachusetts. We visited Walden Pond, a national historical...

When I was a young girl there was an old upright piano in our garage. Only the top third of the keys worked, but I took to that piano...

I’m told that an identity crisis isn’t a diagnosable condition (except for dissociative identity disorder), so there aren’t any typical...

Let’s face facts. We Catholics have never been truly faithful to Jesus. In the end, none of us have followed those teachings that most...