Contributing editor Russell Shaw looks at the life and legacy of Blessed Charles de Foucauld, a French priest whose canonization was announced by the Vatican in late May. De Foucauld joined the military as a ...
Renée Darline Roden writes about responding with tenderness to a violent world. Two years ago, Pope Francis convened a conference on the theology of tenderness, as present in his own theology. Our decision to act ...
Leonard DeLorenzo takes a look at the Sixth Commandment, “Thou shall not commit adultery,” in the seventh piece of a series exploring the Ten Commandments. He says, “At the bare minimum, that means do not ...
D.D. Emmons writes about the feast of the Transfiguration, a liturgical celebration every August sixth that often slips by with limited attention; yet, it is an episode that proclaims Jesus as the Son of God, ...
Leonard DeLorenzo observes that the gift in the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic is a kind of reset in the standard way of doing things. We are going to call what comes after “normal” no ...
As we face hardships because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the faithful can look at the witness of St. Maria Gortetti, whose feast the Church celebrates on July 6. St. Maria died at the age of ...
Writer Victor M. Palachin offers seven habits of highly peaceful people. To have inner peace on earth simply means increasing attitudes and actions that bring calm and tranquility while reducing those that generate disorder and ...
The Servant of God Bartolomé de Las Casas was once a priest who owned slaves. While writing a homily for Pentecost, he was influenced by a verse from Sirach. He became thoroughly convinced of the ...
The Fifth Commandment is “Thou shall not kill.” There is a positive reverse to this commandment to not kill and it makes the Fifth Commandment a lot more challenging. It also draws up deeper into ...
D.D. Emmons explores the practice of offering Communion under both species. The distribution of Communion must be carefully discerned, reverently conducted, and even the potential for abuse, especially mishandling the Precious Blood, avoided. Further, the ...
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