This Lent, I have been reflecting upon the 40 days of fasting that Our Lord did, as well as the Sorrowful Mysteries. With these...

Something occurred to me the other day after getting ashes. Even when we think we have outsmarted Catholicism, even when we think we have...

“Repent and believe,” the minister said to me as she marked my forehead with a cross of ashes. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the...

Several weeks ago I attended a talk about the Incarnation given by Fr. Stephen DeLacy, vocations director in the Philly Archdiocese. He...

I like to think of myself as a planner. Not only do I love to watch my calendar fill up in color-coded “busy” dots, and to edit “penciled...

Koine Greek is a very powerful and deep language. The New Testament of the Bible is unfortunately lost in translation in some...

I started ballroom dancing lessons during my first semester at Franciscan University. Coincidentally, my parents began taking lessons...

A few times some friends and I have gone out to feed the hungry. There were two different ways we would go to them. We either went to a...

We began a ministry with a specific mission and vision for young adults across America. We began with the inspiration of the new...

Part of the reason we hesitate to evangelize sometimes, I believe, is that we can't find our part in the story. What story? My point...

Sometimes there is no horizon. Sometimes I'm just stuck in a dark room with four bare walls. Also, sometimes the help that comes doesn't...

The roof of Hafaz tomb, left, and the north rose window of St. Denis in Paris show the similarities between the artistic styles springing...

Celibacy is a topic that has been debated for a very long time in Christian circles. People have argued about its relevance, its place...

In recent decades there has been a great deal of chatter in the Catholic Church about the New Evangelization. Every now and then, amidst...

I am an ordinary person made extraordinary by living my faith. Where heroes are lacking, where the world is in a state of chaos where a...