The Jubilee of Hope and Holy Week
An ecclesiastical holy year is meant to have an influence, to give added meaning, to everything the Church does over the course of that year. The Jubilee of Hope is, therefore, like a fresh set of wineskins ...
The hope that does not disappoint
Advent is a season of hope. We retrace the experience of the Jewish people awaiting the first coming of the Messiah in Bethlehem in order to prepare us for Jesus' second coming and to embrace him ...
The rebuilder's retirement
On Aug. 5, Pope Francis accepted the retirement of Boston Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap., and replaced him with Archbishop-elect Richard Henning, formerly the Bishop of Providence. It was ...
Continuing the Eucharistic Revival
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and the National Eucharistic Congress were the two most spectacular components of the ongoing three-year-plus National Eucharistic Revival, meant to catalyze greater ...
Divine Mercy and Hell
When my siblings and I were very young and incorrigibly misbehaving, my mother, as a last-ditch effort to get us to listen, would occasionally pick up the rotary phone and inform us that she was calling ...
A long-awaited spotlight on the IVF and ART industries
The Feb. 16 ruling by the Supreme Court of Alabama, which by an 8-1 margin determined that cryogenically frozen human embryos are considered unborn children under Alabama law, has brought a long-awaited ...
Thanksgiving: Our sweet duty, joy, and salvation
At every Mass, one of the most significant dialogues in human life occurs. The priest says, "Let us give thanks to the Lord our God," the faithful respond, "It is right and just," and the priest replies ...
Responding morally as Catholics to the crisis in the Holy Land
For 75 years, the situation in the Holy Land has created various unresolved political and diplomatic problems. There are two peoples whose identities are firmly rooted in the same land, both of whom have ...
