In the sixth chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, we find the account of J...

For many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of...

As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Diocese of Lansing, and...

In an earlier issue, we looked at why the Church teaches us to reje...

The heartbreaking account of the martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity...

What did Jesus teach us about the Father that represented a radical...

Last month I wrote about the gift of faith: faith to believe that C...

Rules for evanglizing

Justin Martyr, was born at the end of the 1st Century, in a Roman s...

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St. Philip Neri was born in Florence, Italy in 1515. He gave up wor...

In the Old Testament, the people seem to experience God’s justice m...

On the last Sunday of this month, May 27, we celebrate the great fe...

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St. Julie Billart was born in 1751 in France, the sixth of seven ch...

I want to come back to a favorite passage of mine in Scripture as w...

In last month’s issue, I wrote about the mercy of God. Mercy is par...

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St Joseph was the husband of the Virgin Mary and foster father of J...

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St. Basil was born in 330 in what is present-day Turkey. His family...

So often we associate it with kindness, generosity or going the extra mile.

In the past several years, a lot of ink has been spilled about the ...