When we complain about another, we often take a position of judgment. Yet only God is the ultimate judge, our Christ.


When we complain about another, we often take a position of judgment. Yet only God is the ultimate judge, our Christ.

Queridos hermanos y hermanas de la comunidad de Cristo Rey y feligreses de la Arquidiócesis de Baltimore, Es un privilegio para mi poder acompañarles hoy en esta celebración a la morenita, la dulce Virgen de Guadalupe, esa madre que nos acoge siempre en su Santo manto, en su tilma.

Now more than ever, I invite you to make room in our hearts to receive those who are overwhelmed, desperate, and helpless.

Christmas comes at the same speed no matter how quickly or slowly you open those Advent calendar doors.

After a fire destroyed Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Franklin Lakes in the early hours of Dec. 11, the suspected arsonist was arrested. He was receiving burn treatment at a local hospital prior to his court hearing.

In “The Two Popes,” their glossy but highly speculative account of supposedly real events, screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) by trashing retired Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins).

Mary, the Mother of God is “the mother of all of us,” Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily for midnight Mass celebrated at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Eventually, there may be a movie focused on some travail affecting people in West Virginia without John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” on the soundtrack.

The world does not need more empty words, it needs committed, active peacemakers who do not exclude or manipulate, but are open to respectful dialogue, Pope Francis said in his annual message for the World Day of Peace Jan. 1.

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.

Poisal-inspired wooden Santas are a staple in the homes of St. Mark graduates.

Those who possess true joy are not deterred by their problems, by distress or by deprivation – their own or that of others.
