Earlier this week, on the first of May, the Church celebrated the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker.

Many attempts have been made to define the feminine, and more recently, the masculine genius.

In 1639, Ursuline sisters bravely crossed the Atlantic Ocean to become the first religious women to bring the Gospel to North America. 

The only written words of mine that have ever had a practical effect on the world appeared in my review of Alexander McCall Smith's book "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."

Our life, our home can be like Rivendell in the essentials.  But it will require something very difficult.

Real people, both within and outside the Church, are messy creatures. We all have divided hearts. As a result, the real world is filled with conflict.  Here’s what we can do.

During vespers the other week we prayed, "Keep us safe from wolf and hireling."

The virtue of hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage: anger with the way things are, and courage to change them for the better. 

Saint John Henry Newman once observed that men always think of their own day and age as the worst. 

Thanks to my pessimism, I am generally quite cheerful (it is optimists who, because of their illusions, are most prey to misery).