Gift of faith allows us to experience the depths of reality that go beyond what we can see
I recently finished reading Walker Percy’s second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” I don’t remember having read it before, though the copy that I’ve owned since college some 30 years ago has marks in the margin ...
There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the problem of the “nones” — the rise of the unaffiliated millennials — who have left religion behind (assuming they ever were religious in the ...
Humans are creatures of habit, so repeating past experiences can be exciting with fresh eyes
What do you see when the priest elevates the host at the consecration during Mass? This isn’t a trick question, but it’s one that goes to the heart of how we, as Catholics, should view ...
Eucharistic processions on Corpus Christi bring us into the mystery of walking beside Jesus in Jerusalem
I fell in love with my wife the first time I met her mother. Amy and I only had been dating a few weeks in the spring of 1987 when we and some of our ...
My grandfather was a storyteller. I imagine that’s where I get it from. No matter what we were discussing, Grandpa Richert always had a story that illustrated his point. Especially in heated arguments, those stories ...
In this week's column, publisher Scott Richert writes about his friend Aaron Wolf, who wasn't a Catholic, but he made Scott a better one.
Before we moved to Huntington, Indiana, in 2017, my family and I were members for over 20 years of a traditional Latin Mass oratory in Rockford, Illinois, established by Bishop Thomas Doran (of blessed memory) ...
