I prefer to wait for the synod to happen before passing final judgment on either its process or its product.

The theme for this year’s World Day of Migrants and Refugees, chosen by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, is “Free to Choose Whether to Migrate or to Stay.”

We must be humble and open to new ways that express the reality of LGBT Catholics within the loving embrace of the church.

Jimmy Buffett knew how to recognize when to take action and when to relax and enjoy the life he’d been given.

Nobody should be deterred from approaching their diocesan marriage tribunal due solely to a lack of funds.

If we don’t feed ourselves physically, spiritually, and emotionally, we will be depleted—and unable to be what we want to be—what we are called to be—for others.

Summer isn’t complete without a trip to the Maryland State Fair. I always enjoy that one final burst of summer fun, spending money and consuming treats with reckless abandon.

At the heart of St. John Henry Newman’s conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism was his study of the early Christians, the fathers of the church.

It would be wrong to harbor a wish or a desire for anyone’s serious and real harm. It likely would be a sin to, for instance, hope specifically that the star player on the opposite team sustains a career-ending injury, or that some other tragedy would befall the team or its players.

I reflect on football in American life as a full, conscious, and active participant in the annual autumn carnival.