She had a gift – not just for teaching, but for connecting with people and making them feel seen and valued.

There are faith-sharing groups out there that beckon us. There are food banks and Catholic charities serving the unhoused and the migrant that need our help.

For years, I have turned to my next-door neighbor Kathy for help.

The eight Beatitudes given to us by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount can shed light on a uniquely Christian vision of fatherhood, enabling faithful dads to become fathers after the Father’s own heart

The thing that most of us probably find most challenging is that in it all we are ultimately called to endurance and patience, and to humbly and attentively seek to accomplish what sets itself before us.

When I think of our Father in heaven, I like to imagine him being a little like my father on Earth – looking at a problem and finding a way to solve it that I can’t see.

“Parish administrator” is distinct from the office of pastor, but this distinction probably will not make much of a practical difference in your day-to-day experience of parish life.

Putin’s war on Ukraine is a war to reverse the American and Western victory in the resolution of the Cold War.

Congress could make this “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” less expensive, more advantageous economically and beneficial to the entire community by removing the increased spending on the enforcement-only approach to immigration and moving the bill forward with a stay on deportations of non-criminal immigrants.

As an adult, though, I lean hard on the Holy Spirit for wisdom, for courage, and for inspiration.