The Anglican religious sisters were received into full communion with the Catholic Church on the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, Jan. 1 2013.

Has someone ever told you that you are perfect just the way you are?

I first encountered the real Aloysius Gonzaga a few years back when I was doing research in the library of the Maryknoll order of priests in Westchester County, New York.

One lesson I have yet to be taught is how to take a beating as all Christian men must learn how to do.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), author of "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" (1964), coined the prescient phrase: "The medium is the message."

A chapter in a remarkable American and Catholic life will close on June 6, when Abbot Thomas Frerking, OSB, concludes more than two decades of service as leader of the monastic community at St. Louis Abbey.

Like his father before him, Eric McLuhan had to deal with the tsunami of "information" generated in what has become a seven-billion-channel media universe.

To most of Britain's Catholic population, Jacob Rees-Mogg is, to say the least, a curious figure.

I think the heroic nineteenth-century archbishop in Cuba, Anthony Mary Claret, was off the mark when he disapproved of laughter because Jesus is not known to have laughed.

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), English author, ascetic, and drug addict, wrote "The Hound of Heaven".