The unity for which Jesus prayed
The Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins Jan. 18, takes place each year in the days leading up to the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul on Jan. 25, when the pope travels to the Basilica ...
Our Christmas mission
There are many ways we can approach the nearly inexhaustible mystery of Christmas. We can meditate on the divine humility of God's becoming one of us, on his deliberate choice to become a helpless ...
Becoming priests with a mind and heart for the missions
October is World Mission Month, which has at its culmination World Mission Sunday and since 1927 has taken place on the penultimate Sunday of October. World Mission Sunday this year takes place on ...
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 ...
