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November is Black Catholic History Month. Why not use this November to take some time to learn about some of these 20th-century African-Americans who chose Catholicism and who made great contributions to the American Catholic experience? Here are three you might consider.
All Souls Day is a reminder to be vigilant and ready for the day that “God will choose to call us to himself,” Bishop Burbidge said during a Mass at Fairfax Memorial Park.
Saints are not just the well-known men, women and young people on the liturgical calendar, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints.
To my brothers in faith in our age of “toxic masculinity,” I ask: what is the state of your secret life of praise?
In his homily, Bishop Burbidge shared that All Saints Day reminds us that we are called to grow in holiness and to become saints.
As we exercise our ministry of teaching, we wish to offer principles and observations that we believe will be of value to the faithful of our dioceses as we exercise the right to vote in elections this year.
The temptation to take on the identity of others may be strong, but maybe we need to play dress up for ourselves, finding our own true identity.
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.
Writer-director David Lowery's adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker magazine profile of bank robber Forrest Tucker, who died in prison in 2004, is driven by the conceit of a career criminal as a jaunty old coot.
Guides to the kingdom
In today's Gospel, however, the scribe who approaches Jesus is sincere when he asks which is the greatest Commandment. Jesus' answer is classic. He quotes the famous Jewish prayer from Deuteronomy, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength." Then Jesus adds from Leviticus, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."