The feast of St. Philip Neri ...

The child in the backseat asks ...

Our Lord had sent the apostles ...

Most church feasts celebrate events and people ...

When Jesus had given instructions ...

There are personal memories...

The extended Independence Day weekend ...

I do not like most jargon, as it diminishes ...

It is my opinion as I write this on the evening of September 15, that the world will not end tonight...

In the liturgical readings these days, as in much of the past summer, our Lord teaches through parables...

The first part of the academic year of many schools in the English-speaking world is called “Michaelmas Term.”...

Having had father, uncles and cousins in combat on the high seas for our country, I may have been a disappointment to the family line, being prone to seasickness when doing anything more adventurous than rowing in college...

“He who pays the piper calls the tune”...

A hymn I knew as a child says of the holy ones...

The proposed realignment of parishes is complete for now...

The feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of Saint John Lateran last week was a twofold reminder of the importance of that church, which is the Pope’s cathedral and, like all churches, an expression of the unity found in communion with the Successor of Saint Peter...

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, is a modern celebration...

For those old enough to remember it is easy to forget, and for those young enough it is easy not to know how uncertain was the future in 1939...

It would be hard to think of any writer in the last several generations who celebrated Christmas as heartily as G. K. Chesterton...

In mid-Advent, with the solemn purple on the altars and the days darkening early, the Church suddenly dons rose vestments and admits flowers...