Catholics wishing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with corned beef may do so this year, even though March 17 falls on a Friday of Lent.Read More

Jalen Smith of Mount St. Joseph swept the Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors.Read More

Father Leo R. Tittler, who died Feb. 18 at 82, was remembered as a caring and generous priest.Read More

For weeks I have been reading blogs full of ideas of what to do for Lent. Almost every single one offers a new take on how to incorporate prayer and fasting and sacrifice into each day. Part of me wants to try every single idea.By now I should almost certainlyRead More

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff “Jane Roe” in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand, died Feb. 18 at an assisted-living facility in Katy. She was 69.Read More

All our plans, all our meetings, all our writings and strategies – all of this will profit us nothing unless we heed the call to discipleship in its most radical form as presented for us in today’s Gospel.Read More

We had seen the trailer for The Lego Batman Movie, and I knew we were going to have to see the film. We all loved The Lego Movie, and this one looked like more of the same.When I happened to mention to a friend that we were going, though, sheRead More

Building up the church involves more than simply repeating "churchy" language.Read More