All eyes on RomeJaymie Stuart Wolfe
On the eve of the conclave, I find myself a bit struck by the amount of attention it seems like the whole world is giving to it all. Sure, the conclave is the oldest election process still in use. And ...
On the Camino: Many CaminosMark T. Valley
This week has been a 145-mile, all-weather trek along the pastoral surf-town coast of Cantabria. I used to think there was just one Camino -- a yellow-arrow path that everyone followed, more or less ...
Pedestal deserved: Carlo Acutis' digital authenticitySister Hosea Rupprecht, FSP
For someone for whom the idea of a celebrity culture putting people on an undeserved pedestal was distasteful, it's a bit ironic that he's been put on a pedestal himself. In the case of soon-to-be-St. ...
ConclaveArchbishop Richard G. Henning
As I write this column, the conclave to elect the new Holy Father has not yet begun, as we have only just concluded the nine days of mourning for Pope Francis. It is possible that even as this issue of ...
Journey to the Ends of the Earth in PrayerMaureen Crowley Heil
As I have been privileged to travel around the world, witnessing the work funded by the Pontifical Mission Societies (TPMS), I make it a point to carry World Mission Rosaries with me. The World Mission ...
Shepherd and the lambScott Hahn
Israel's mission -- to be God's instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth (see Isaiah 49:6) -- is fulfilled in the Church. By the "Word of God" that Paul and Barnabas preach in today's ...
7 reasons to pray for the cardinals in conclaveJaymie Stuart Wolfe
As the College of Cardinals gathers in Rome for the conclave that will elect our next pope, the rest of us may feel like we have no real role to play in the process. And yet, that is absolutely not the ...
Legacies in Ordinary TimeLucia A. Silecchia
Since Easter Monday when, in the glow of Easter hope, Pope Francis passed from this life, commentators, columnists, scholars, and sages have spent many words answering a frequently asked question: What ...
What are my Easter duties?Jenna Marie Cooper
Q: What exactly are my Easter duties? My grandparents sometimes talk about "the Easter duty," but I'm not sure if this was just a pre-Vatican II thing, or something I still need to worry about. (United ...
On the Camino: Jentillaks and jazzMark T. Valley
Leaving a seaside town, I nearly took the wrong path until an old man in a beret -- like the 19th-century Catholic Carlists -- called out. He pointed to the coastal route. "Thank me later," he said. He ...
