“Being Catholic in Boston is a contact sport,” Cardinal Sean O’Malley said recently. More
Thanksgiving couldn't come at a better time this year, because gratitude is the one inexhaustible natural resource we seem to have a shortage of these days.More
As I stood in line waiting to go to confession recently (yes, I still do that), a man who’d lately exited the confessional approached me and in a confidential tone of voice said, “I’m beginning to believe we are in the End Times. Do you think that might be true?”More
Of all the dilemmas classified under end-of-life issues, the most divisive even for Catholics has been the treatment of people diagnosed as being in a “vegetative state.”More
God is real. God is good. God is active in our lives.More
We have an interesting dynamic in our family. My daughter Sarah is just five years older than her brother’s first child, Lucy. More
To my brothers in faith in our age of “toxic masculinity,” I ask: what is the state of your secret life of praise?More
The Lopers finalized their adoption at a Sept. 5 court hearing and embarked on a protracted flight home. On the morning of Sept. 11, they were on their last leg, hours from Texas, when the pilot re-routed them to a town they had never heard of: Gander, Newfoundland. They were told something vague about the U.S. airspace being closed.More