As a soccer fan who follows the professional game around the globe, I’m used to the taunts and eye-rolls I receive from my friends who don’t appreciate the Beautiful Game. But I wasn’t ready for ...
On Dec. 25, Christians throughout the world will direct their eyes to the crèche, remembering the birth of our infant Lord. In Bethlehem, hidden from all except the poor and lowly, God has pitched his ...
Several times during the course of his pontificate, Pope Francis has asked the faithful if they know the date of their baptism. “Today, at home, go look, ask about the date of your Baptism, and ...
“He has the servant thing down.” I was leaving Mass at Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Church in Holland, Michigan, in town for an event at Hope College. And the Uber driver, Robert, who ...
The first day of the 2018 plenary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — a meeting already hotly anticipated given the urgency of the bishops’ response to the revelations regarding clergy sexual abuse that ...
When President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, the United States was embroiled in the Civil War. And yet the language employed by our 16th president in his proclamation that year was ...
Nov. 6 came and went. Most American Catholics regarded the day as special because of the midterm elections. Few thought of it as an anniversary, but American Catholics alive on Nov. 6, 1928, remember it ...
It’s getting to the point where I hate anything that has to do with a phone other than talking and listening. I can’t get a slice of pizza without somebody trying to get me to ...
Question: God says to St. Paul in 2 Corinthians that whatever his “thorn in the flesh” was, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness” (12:7, 9). And in Romans, ...
Across the country, election signs are forgotten. The newest governors, senators, congressmen and women, mayors, and county commissioners will soon take up their offices. As residents of the United States, our elections are endless occasions ...