Our missions and apostolates suffer because we too often pray in a perfunctory way.

Summer is my favorite time of the year. I love everything about it—the heat, the long sunny days, and the lack of routine. This summer we didn’t plan much for our teens, and that only enhanced the time off. It was a season of freedom—no bedtimes and no early mornings. It was glorious. And we […]

I’m not one to have a favorite season; I love them all. But there’s so much to praise about fall.

If a parish is able to have at least a weekly Sunday Mass, then there would likewise seem to be enough of a priestly presence in that area to allow penitents to have their individual confessions heard within a reasonable time frame.

Here are some ways you can satisfy your thirsty soul by injecting prayer into your busy life.

That is part of being a parent—offering, inviting, hoping, and loving, and recognizing that your child might take a different path.

We can always turn to Jesus as a friend and confidant like none other.

While a spiritual communion might be a praiseworthy aid to one’s spiritual life, it is not the same thing as a physical, sacramental Communion.

At least 46 percent of our Catholics need better instruction on what the church teaches so that their opinions on migration will be informed by Catholic social teaching.

The Peyton Institute for Domestic Church Life (an apostolate of Holy Cross Family Ministries) worked with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate to create the Future Faithful Families Project.