Getting to be a ripe old age is a privilege, Pope Francis told older priests. If facing an illness, that too, becomes a privilege in that one resembles Jesus, "who suffers, and one carries the cross, ...
We need a break. Better yet, how about a sabbatical? In his latest for Our Sunday Visitor, Deacon Greg Kandra explains that while a sabbatical is not uncommon for those in ministry and academica, it ...
David Mills writes that it might seem paradoxical, but even bad cops rushed into the twin towers on 9/11, adding, “It’s what they’d signed up for, what they did, part of who they were. You ...
Pope Francis is making headlines again for remarks he made during his press conference on his return flight from Slovakia. Most of the chatter stems from the comments he made when asked whether or not ...
For the first time since his four-day trip to Iraq in early March, Pope Francis left Italy for an apostolic visit to Hungary and Slovakia. Flying to Budapest on September 12, the pope celebrated Mass ...
Assistant editor Ava Lalor shares a fact about herself: She has no sense of direction. Despite having a fairly reliable mental map based on landmarks, the cardinal directions don’t offer her much assistance. And unlike ...
Falling into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that is superficial and sterile, Pope Francis said. Presiding over a Divine Liturgy Sept. 14, the feast ...
With COVID-19 cases rising because of the delta variant, more and more schools are having to put protocols in place to help slow the spread of the virus: mask mandates, distance or hybrid learning, social ...
Life is chaotic, and Molly Farinholt, a recent college graduate, wife and mother of a newborn, writes, “We aren’t created for chaos. We are made to live ordered lives, oriented always toward God. And it ...
In a new column for Our Sunday Visitor, Father Joshua Whitfield, a pastor in Dallas, Texas, writes in no uncertain terms that “abortion is evil. It must end. Such is and will be our endless ...
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