Love Your Neighbor

Have you ever had the experience of giving a gift and knowing the recipient hated it? Either by the look on the person’s face when he or she opened it or its disregard later? I have, and it’s not a good feeling. I have also been on the…

by Christopher M. Bellitto The story of Martha and Mary is one of the most famous episodes in Christian Scripture. It resonates with every family and circle of friends. There is often the Martha who organizes, who fixes, and who does the…

We’ve all seen them: those lone, scruffy figures at intersections and freeway underpasses holding bent cardboard signs asking for a handout. Their faces are as cracked and blistered as the sidewalk. Their meager possessions lie tangled in a…

One Sunday after Mass, Lisa Penzkover from Caldwell, Idaho, was discussing the topic of pro-life fairs with some parishioners when she mentioned how she thought it would be important to include a foster care booth. Penzkover says, “They…

BY JOHN BURGER Celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich grew up in northeastern Italy, in an area that became part of Yugoslavia after World War II. Her family was desperate to escape life under communism. “We had no one. They found a home for us.…

BY ELLA HADACEK Catholics are called to reflect the truth and beauty of God in every facet of their lives. St. John Paul II beautifully articulates the role of Catholic artists in his Letter to Artists. With loving regard, the divine Artist…

BY DANIEL P. SMITH Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more. (Romans 5:20) Just before 8 p.m. on a wintry Wednesday in Chicago, three words pouring from a police radio seize the attention of Fr. Dan Brandt: infant, unattended,…

by Melanie Rigney They gathered on March 4, 1920, in Washington, D.C., 122 voting delegates who represented all but one diocese in the country along with 57 women’s societies. Together, they formed the National Council of Catholic Women…

by Fr. Kyle Schnippel In March 2014, I was transferred from the vocation office for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and into a yet-to-be named parish, where the course of my priesthood would be changed in a way I never thought possible.…

BY KEVIN T. DI CAMILLO Perhaps one of the biggest detriments to young men entering the monastic life is the lifelong commitment — that, plus the extremely long time it takes to become a monk. And, of course, the vows of poverty, chastity,…