There is a lot of excitement about bringing Jesus out into the streets this summer. After all, that’s what the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will do, as the Blessed Sacrament travels along four ...

More than once in scripture we are instructed to get the word of two or three witnesses in areas of lines being crossed. None of us probably have to go that far back in our life to a moment when we ...

A month of funerals echoes the great hymn to our ancestors from Sirach 44:1: "Let us now praise famous men and women." The deaths of Margaret Brennan (April 28), sister, educator and leader, and Dan ...

Soon after I was called as senior minister of First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont, a church member gave me a tour of the building. When we got to the formal church parlor, I paused to ...

In her short story “Revelation,” Flannery O’Connor tells of Mrs. Turpin, an upright if not self-righteous woman, who gives thanks to God for not having made her like so many other people upon whom she ...

In the underrated film drama Into Temptation, a priest preaches to the small, stoic congregation of St. Mary Magdalene on the feast day of a St. Cyril, who lived a life of complete chastity, poverty ...

"Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me" (John 6:37). "The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed" was once for many Catholics of a ...