Michael O’Rourke, the husband to Maria and father of 10, offers four things he wishes he would have known about marriage. The first is commitment. He and his wife had promised to never say the ...
Msgr. Owen Campion writes about the depth and meaning of sacramental marriage, using the example of Blessed Karl and Empress Zita of Austria, who put Christ and the Church at the center of their relationship. ...
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Religious Liberty praised the Department of Health and Human Services for resolving discrimination complaints over two hospitals' refusal to let patients have access to the sacraments of ...
As far as stories of endurance and faith go, it's hard to top the dedication of a group of young Catholics from the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas.
Under threat of a hurricane in the middle of ...
In this issue of Taking Note, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about her long-awaited return to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. After going through a series of precautions created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Lopez was directed to ...
In this issue of Taking Note, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about appreciation for priests. She writes, “We need the sacraments. And we need holy men who will give their lives for them. Show them. Thank ...
In this issue of Taking Note, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about returning to Mass after the lockdown. She says it’s her unworthiness and her complete weakness without God that has been unmistakable during this time ...
May is the month many eagerly await because it is the time many children receive first holy Communion. Sadly, this year the coronavirus has made pastors postpone this momentous milestone in the spiritual lives of ...
In a "touchless" environment spawned by the coronavirus pandemic, living out the church's sacramental life is tough without the element of touch: the reception of the Eucharist, the baptism with water, the laying on of ...
A reader says, “I have a friend who is Christian, not Catholic, and believes in the symbolism of the Eucharist and not that it is the true body and blood of Our Lord. She asks ...