Father Doyle fields questions about the use of incense at Mass and whether a person should give money to homeless people.

Our saucer magnolia tree is blooming! Spring is here, and then it’s not, and then it sort of is. I think we might see some warmer weather this weekend.

The defense of the indefensible leads to rage, and rage becomes a form of madness.

Richard Szczepanowski, a reporter for the Catholic Standard in Washington, shares his personal memories of Barbara Bush.

Earth Day 2018 urges us to reduce, refuse, reuse, recycle and remove plastic. Not just bags, but the single use plastics that are so ubiquitous in our society.

On our morning drive to school it was gray and rainy. It looked like a long, wet, gray day without outdoor recess.As our car inched along in the drop-off line, I spotted a little girl—maybe 6 or 7 years old—bounding along the sidewalk. She was stopping every few feet to bend down to the concrete, […]

My parents sent our second-grader a new tie with a First Communion tie tack to wear, and he could not wait to put it on when it arrived.

“Writing is such a form of prayer,” Colleen told me. “When I get out of the way, the Holy Spirit can really work through me.”

At that first practice, anything and everything is possible. The season lies ahead of us fresh and clean and exciting.

Father Doyle answers a question about possible sainthood for the founder of EWTN.