As the Christmas season approaches, George Matysek shares the joys of having five children age 5 and under.

When my husband and I were matched with our son, we thought we might travel to China to adopt him in just a few short months. But it turned out to be a much longer process. As the months dragged on and the wheels of bureaucracy moved slowly on both sides of the world, I...

Father Kenneth Doyle fields questions about whether Judas received Communion and a priest refusing to baptize a baby.

Will gets some important things right, but he gets some even more basic things quite wrong.

The best thing you can do in life is be a consistent, positive example to your family. Teach them to be punctual. Teach them to be a good influence on their community. And, most essential, teach them how to provide care and love to other people, especially those in your family.

If there’s one thread that runs throughout the selected homilies, it’s courage.

Under the auspices of the Jesuits, Brune taught several generations of young men the value of doing the right thing, doggedness, loyalty, patience and dozens of other seemingly passé traits.

The dying parts of the Church are those still misreading John XXIII.

The fleeting image of the demure and habited nun furtively flashing the two-finger peace sign in the 1970 documentary “Woodstock” has floated softly through five decades now, a lasting if elusory symbol that touches on the historic music festival but ultimately alights someplace else.

Yes, belonging to places is good – it feels right, we fit in. We should all belong to some place, to some group, to some church, even to someone. Where do you feel as if you belong?

A young super-speller tells his story.

Everyone who comes to us should be reminded that through their Baptism, they are priests, prophets, and kings -- not just in some fairy-tale sense, but truly, because their relationship with Christ makes them so.