Faith & Life

WHEN YOU HEAR THE announcement “Four more shopping days until Christmas,” what goes through your mind? Panic? Anxiety? Stress? If…

DEC. 14 IS GAUDETE Sunday, which means “Rejoice” Sunday in Latin. There are less than two weeks until Christmas. Jesus is…

“EVERY PERSON CARRIES within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves. What seems to be ‘love at first…

“I AM SURE THAT GOD keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait.”…

ON NOV. 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII solemnly defined the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in…

I HAVE A BOX FILLED with old letters, postcards and photos of people who have come and gone in my…

THE FEEL OF AUTUMN CRISPNESS in the air plus cornucopias, pilgrims and turkeys as decorations are all reminders that Thanksgiving…

DID YOU KNOW THAT St. Peter’s Basilica is not the cathedral of Rome? You’d think it was, based on its…

AT MY HIGH SCHOOL reunion, I was greeted by someone I couldn’t recall. Without hesitation, he launched into a list…

THIS MONTH THE CHURCH celebrates the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo on Oct. 19. Nurtured in the faith in his…