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During the Lenten season, an austere time of the desert, we keep our eyes fixed on Christ crucified. The focus is not on the “no” of...

A frightening trend emerged when I was working in Catholic school administration. The acceleration of problems related to sexuality for...

The Blessing of the Wheat in the Artois by Jules Breton, c. 1857. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) We often repeat that the...

“He was hungry.” Luke tells us of Jesus’ struggle with the devil in the desert, during which he fasted for 40 days. At the end of it, as...

“All of man’s misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room.” Blaise Pascal, who offers this...

Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem , with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians...

(Photo: Wikipedia/François-Régis Salefran/CC BY-SA 4.0) It would be easy to start 2023 with a healthy dose of cynicism. As we start the...

(Photo: Jüppsche / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0) I first met Joseph Ratzinger when I was 15 years old. No, not in person, but I was...

Joseph — son of David, husband of Mary, the humble builder, and adoptive father of the Messiah — stands as one of the greatest saints in...

“Now is the time of St. Joseph!” Although it possible to overlook St. Joseph in the story of salvation history due to his silence in the...