Maybe they’re chasing squirrels or enjoying steaks every day. Maybe they’re spending time with our loved ones who’ve gone before us.

Here are five times to slide prayer into your family’s day this summer that will deepen your prayer lives and be easy to keep up when school rolls back around. In fact, you’ll notice that these are all “on-the-go” moments.

After Pope Leo XIV’s promulgation of his first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” The New York Times ran an opinion article by a Catholic journalist that asserted the pope’s preference for “social justice over pelvic theology.”

Why is it that when the SSPX says Mass, it’s only illicit, but now going to confession with them would be not only illicit but also invalid?

Life is short, after all. Life is worth celebrating. And life is better because of the many people who laugh and cry with us, listen to us, share their stories and accompany us along the way.

Let us continue to pray for all fathers, especially immigrant fathers who have left their homeland in search of a better future for their children. Following the example of St. Joseph, may they remain men of faith, hard work, courage, and service, never forgetting that God walks beside them — even through life’s fiercest storms.

A newsletter I read signs off the same way every time: “To a future of Abundance.” The writer, futurist Peter Diamandis, is one of our most fluent evangelists for what artificial intelligence is about to do for us, and I read him because he gives such confident voice to the optimism so much of our culture now takes for granted.

I tasted it, and it wasn’t just too salty. It was terrible. Even though I had followed the recipe, the dish was inedible.

George Matysek’s backyard may never win landscaping awards, but the dirt where his sons play baseball has become a place where memories, family bonds and faith take root.

Every mom — and everyone who was ever a kid — remembers the occasional chaos of school mornings, grabbing breakfast, homework, lunch bags, negotiating who gets the bathroom next.