How I learned to go without good feelings in prayer
A picnic table at Grandma's house ended up being a test of my faith.
A picnic table at Grandma's house ended up being a test of my faith.
Here is a puzzle. Very often if not each day, Catholics pray the Lord's Prayer, which includes the petition, "Give us this day our daily bread."
The Gospels often put before us beautiful, powerful, sometimes unvarnished, petitions of our Lord.
Like many people today, I have been thinking about the Holy Mass — and confusion.
The pope’s intention with his motu proprio, Traditionis Custodes, is to secure or restore the unity of the Church.
The month of May is a month which the piety of the faithful has long dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God.
We all feel this pull. We understand implicitly that our lives should be characterized by sacrifice and are missing something if they're not.
I claim no expertise in climate science. I do claim a certain competence in detecting spin in the media;
Tenebrae, named after the Latin word for darkness, is a unique celebration of the early morning prayers of the Divine Office for the three days of the Easter Triduum.
A few years ago, I attended a Mass at which the homilist was a newly ordained young Jesuit.