George Matysek fondly remembers his 104-year-old aunt, a woman of courage, faith and determination.

Pastors throughout the church, if you haven’t already, please fill the fonts and supply holy water to the stoups.

The Didache not only provides a fascinating glimpse of the liturgical and moral life of the early church, but also offers relevant guidance for every age, including our own.

In purgatory, we will finally become all we were created to be, what God deems what we’d call the “best version of ourselves.”

The things that weigh us down in this life – fatigue, difficult jobs, pain, injustice, our sins – will all be gone in heaven.

On All Souls and All Saints, we honor not just the dead whom we love and extol as examples; we proclaim our belief that this is not the end — that from the hallowed ground of our beloved dead comes the promise of the risen Lord, the empty tomb.

The Rupnik affair poses a real test to not only the synod’s members, but the whole church, which has 11 months before the synod assembly reconvenes, to reflect on the synod’s synthesis report released Oct. 28 and discern what “co-responsible” decision-making should look like for governance of a “missionary synodal church.”

Whatever path leads to the church of tomorrow, it depends on the laity getting involved in its revitalization.

most dioceses in United States have protocols which require an individual to have medical and psychiatric evaluations, to rule out potential natural causes, before they can receive a major exorcism.

Even though we never knew him personally though, Georgie is so important to me—and to our family.