OR Heb 11:1-2, 8-12 Lk 12:32-48 OR Lk 12:35-40 Last Sunday's Gospel reading and this Sunday's Gospel reading are really one ...

Even for those whose lives do not center on the school year, there is often still something about September that brings fresh ...

Q: Why would God allow Satan to torture and torment Job when he knew Job was a wonderful man and if God is, indeed, ...

Trust in God -- as the Rock of our salvation, as the Lord who made us His chosen people, as our shepherd and guide. This ...

Eighty years ago two of the world's deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction. But a Catholic monastery built in Na ...

Volunteers watching over the relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati gently placed items from the faithful on top of his casket to make a third-class relic for the visitors to the Basili ...

Today, the idea of counting patriotism as a virtue makes a lot of people antsy and uncomfortable. But that wasn't always the ...

The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning ...

Holy Father, we are children of our time. We live in a culture that shapes us without our realizing it; it is a culture marked by technology, especially by social media. We o ...

(The presidential chair) should be so located in the church that it is evident that the one seated in it is truly presiding ...

Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family. The pope said that if the teen ...

In the city where the Prince of Peace was born -- peace feels heartbreakingly distant -- especially for children. Amid the Israel-Hamas war in the nearby Gaza Strip ...