In our lives as Catholics, we are not only obligated and privileged to partake in the Eucharist, but we are also called to maintain communion with the body of Christ, which is the church, which is united visibly under the teaching authority of the Holy Father in Rome.

Jesus wants to transform all those relationships and situations which cause us pain, and he waits for us to invite him into this redemptive work.

Like Veronica, who wipes Jesus’ face on the way to Calvary, and Simon of Cyrene who helps Jesus carry his cross, people we might not even know – or know well – are ready to walk beside us and lighten our load.

With the Academy Awards right around the corner, here’s my take on how the 10 nominations for best picture hold up in the human dignity department.

It’s a foretaste of heaven to look around Mass and witness the full participation of the people of God.

if you personally feel that Friday abstinence during Lent is not enough of a sacrifice to be spiritually beneficial for you, you are certainly free to incorporate another penitential practice in addition to abstinence on Fridays.

Both Stanley Rother and Alexei Navalny exemplified the cardinal virtue of courage, which is also a gift of the Holy Spirit.

There are two major policy goals needed at this time. We need not only better border management, but also the distinctive compassion of past immigration policies, such as family reunification and attention to our labor needs and to immigrant workers.

God can and does use anything and everything to reach us, to communicate his love, to connect us to one another. It seems that a mission to spread the joy of the Gospel can be conducted by mail.

It takes spiritual maturity to become the sign rather than, like a hopeful child, demanding one.