If God can visit us, even when our hearts seem like a lowly manger, we can truly say: Hope is not dead; hope is alive and it ...

Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., ...

When I dropped him off for the first of three rehearsals, we passed a girl crying in front of a sheet of paper taped to a ...

The Irish tradition has long been that on Nollaig na mBan, this final day of the busy Christmas season, women get to put ...

Devoted fans of Chesterton (1874-1936), a well-known British writer and Catholic convert, marked the 150th anniversary of his ...

Even the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where every painting bursts with personality, suffers from what I would call ...

Bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life year-round, a tradition being rediscovered and ...

May we keep that experience present and alive, and “let every heart prepare him room,” eager to welcome the one who brings ...

No one can manufacture Christmas, make Christmas magic. Christmas is not compelled by effort or technique. No, there is only ...

Today’s passage highlights the role of family ethics. “God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he ...

The eyes of faith allowed us to see the people we served as people who shared in the purpose of life we all have been tasked ...

In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of ...