“People are looking for a little peace of mind.” A young man who came to talk to me years ago said this about himself and others. I have always remembered what he said. St. Francis ...
In public schools across the country, teachers and students practice lockdown drills if a gunman storms their building and opens fire. In some school districts, principals and teachers learn how to bandage gunshot wounds and ...
Among the most popular, beautiful and reflective stories in all Scripture are those known as the infancy narratives found in the first two chapters of the Gospel according to St. Luke. The narratives are not ...
The feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12 is a Mexican tradition that has extended throughout the Americas. In the United States, it has also been adopted by many people from Central and ...
Street evangelization might call to mind images of people shouting on corners and holding apocalyptic signs. Yet, in the age of the New Evangelization and modern media, one priest is taking to the streets with ...
Amid the deeply political and social media-fueled debates that continue to swirl around the perpetual tinder box of immigration, it can be tempting to get caught up in the rhetoric — whether it be to ...
Words fail when people encounter deep suffering, such as the father of two children who perished from spoiled food that he had retrieved from the trash in the Philippines, the only sustenance he could find; ...
Seventeen years ago, Shanika Dawson was pregnant and homeless. The father of her baby was not capable of helping her, she said. Dawson tried sleeping in a shelter in New York but was sexually assaulted. ...
Thousands of migrants from Central America’s violent Northern Triangle were still weeks away from reaching Tijuana, Mexico, near southern California, but in late October Father Pat Murphy was already thinking about how to meet their ...
