More than 2,500 people filled the Saville Community Sports Centre at the University of Alberta Jan. 12 to remember the lives of 13 Edmontonians and 163 others lost when Ukrainian Airlines International Flight PS752 was ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about a homeless man she encountered near Grand Central Station. “When I stopped and looked into his eyes,” she writes, “I saw the Lord. I saw love. I saw a ...
"From the Depths of Our Hearts," a defense of priestly celibacy, has an introduction and conclusion written jointly by the retired pope and by Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship ...
A reader asks why his priest does not approve of parishioners using their phones and electronic devices to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and read the Mass readings. Monsignor Charles Pope replies that sacred ...
After a devastating earthquake killed as many as 300,000 people in Haiti on January 12, 2010, the Church has helped to lead the rebuilding effort in one of the poorest nations on earth. Despite the ...
Pope Francis has set a special day called “Sunday of the Word of God” to honor, study, share the Bible. This year January 26 will be observed as a day devoted to “the celebration, study ...
In the Opening the Word for the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Timothy P. O’Malley writes of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. The righteousness of Jesus’ baptism is revealed in ...
In the eighth installment on the life of Christ, Russell Shaw writes about Jesus’ announcement of the Eucharist, a message embraced by some, rejected by others. Jesus feeds the multitude and then announces, “Amen, amen, ...
As we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, we should remember our own baptisms. Even if we were baptized as infants and cannot remember the event for ourselves, the fruits of the ...
In the first of a 10-part series on the Ten Commandments, Leonard J. DeLorenzo says, “The freedom of the Christian life is in receiving and responding to the order God gives, and to live wholly ...
