Here are five things you might not know, others you once learned but perhaps forgot, and inspiration to recommit daily to seeking closer friendship with God through repentance and fighting sin, wherever it is found.

“But I remember those wonderful days with my boys in the house,” she said. “Cherish that time.”

Catholic Christianity isn’t an extracurricular, or even a program of instruction. Nor is it merely a way to live our lives. Following Christ is life, and it comes with a language and culture all its own.

Learning about the power of the nudge can help us make — and keep — new habits.

More Catholics stepping into and supporting Catholic health care professionals who are living the mission, as well as living in solidarity with others through health-sharing organizations, can be antidotes to the increasing depersonalization of health care.

Before we turn to massive deportation programs, which are not only costly but also disruptive to society and especially family unity, perhaps a program to heal the wound of undocumented migration in our country should be attempted.

Consecrated virginity is a unique vocation for women in that it is centered in the local diocesan church rather than a particular group or religious community.

Whatever is on your heart today, whether it seems insurmountable or insignificant, whether it’s for you or for someone you love, you can bring it to Jesus — directly or through his mother.

Truly in the Eucharist, as the saints came to know, we find the answer to our searching, the satisfaction to our yearning, the meaning of it all.

With our eyes reopened by the Fathers, we can now see that meaning hidden in plain sight in “the mysteries of the Rosary” and in “the mystery of Faith” in the eucharistic prayer in the Mass.