I would have been happy to watch four hours of a film that was as honest and insightful about Joseph Ratzinger as it was about Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

Are you still celebrating Christmas? It’s only the 10th day of Christmas, and the Three Kings haven’t yet arrived. Our tree is still up, and we have been exchanging final gifts with friends and baking cookies.

We don’t stop celebrating his birth just because the stores take down decorations and end the sales. We find the light in the manger and we trek to the Lord with all who seek him.

We can’t know what lies ahead. As much as we might not like uncertainty, there’s also a gift in not knowing what the future holds.

“Little Women” has been performed many times, but my favorite rendition doesn’t feature Elizabeth Taylor or Winona Ryder.

Father Doyle fields questions on work assignment on Sunday and giving a Mass card to a couple married in a non-Catholic ceremony.

Stories from Christmas, including how an Old Bay ornament made its way to our tree

God knows how the Infant Jesus will capture our attention—if we just let Him.

The Christmas story is a lengthy meditation on a counterintuitive but essential truth: true freedom, genuine liberation, comes through freely chosen obedience to God’s purposes.

We’ve made it this far. Ready or not, Christmas is coming. But this last little stretch offers a sliver of time.