---1---Here I am trying to get back into this weekly feature I dreamed up when I started the blog. I’ve made myself a nice little template to use every week and I’ve come up with a shiny new image to include in it. Also, school is right around the corner,Read More

Retired Pope Benedict XVI said he felt a “duty” to resign because of his declining health and the rigorous demands of papal travel.Read More

We have allowed even our religions to become reasons to divide us. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all at least agree on one religious belief that God created humans in his own image and likeness?Read More

Meet the president and CEO of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, the international relief agency of the U.S. bishops.Read More

Families are snapping up new state scholarship money in order to send their kids to non-public schools, and many are choosing Catholic schools.Read More

School starts for our sons on Monday. At this point, I wouldn't say we are counting down to the first day of school. Instead, we are avoiding talking about school and making the most of this time.Now and then I mention that we might want to think of getting on aRead More

Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family is an example of the “ordinary magisterium” – papal teaching – to which Catholics are obliged to give “religious submission of will and intellect,” said an article in the Vatican newspaper.Read More

The Apostolic Penitentiary has nothing to do with a jail cell and everything to do with God’s mercy.Read More