As the decorations disappear from our neighbors’ homes, we’re still holding onto Christmas in our house.

Q. I am an 88-year-old Korean War veteran with a question that is not earth-shattering but one that bothers me almost every day. I talk and pray to God, to Jesus and to the Blessed Virgin Mary out loud — every morning and at night before I go to bed. But there are also times when I pray silently — just in my head — especially if I wake up during the night. So what I need to know is whether those prayers — the silent ones — are heard.

2021 saw the passing of some of the nation’s most important leaders, thinkers, writers and freedom fighters of the modern era.

~1~ Happy New Year! I have never had much success with resolutions, but I do love setting the tone for the year. I let Jen Fulwiler’s Word of the Year generator choose a word for me—Hospitality—and her Saint of the Year generator pick a saint for me—St. Margaret of Antioch. Hospitality seems to bring its […]

How can we approach the new year with the theological virtues of faith, hope and love in mind?

A poetic tribute to 2021

As soon as the first daylight creeps into their cages, the finches are ready to start the day—and they think I should start mine, too.

Merry Christmas! Here are a few highlights of our Christmas celebration so far.

There is nothing like the happy news of a brand-new baby.

“Besides the cradle in which our Lord, it is alleged, was rocked, is the stone manger of the grotto of Bethlehem. One of the stones of this manger is shown in the basilica of St. Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline, in the altar of the crypt of the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.