The constant smack of hands echoes as security guard John Sergile daps up roughly 1,000 of the 1,400 seventh-12th grade boys ...
Beyond my usual list of things to be grateful for -- mercy, family, reasonable health, employment, the elders still among us ...
Usually, when Msgr. Bryan Hehir celebrates a memorial Mass, he takes some time in his homily to reflect on the life of the ...
On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1909, Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston delivered an address to veterans of the Ninth ...
As we move closer to winter, we anticipate the holidays and the fact that the New Year is just around the corner. When it ...
With the help of Archbishop Richard Henning, dozens of volunteers working with Catholic Charities Boston gave hundreds of ...
Every Advent, the Liturgy of the Word gives our sense of time a reorientation. There's a deliberate tension in the next four ...
That sense of joyful preparation combined with anticipation is the attitude we bring to Advent as we await the arrival of ...
What do you get when you mix almost 1,500 priests, religious, and lay people -- young, old and in between -- from every country in the Americas? A Mission Congress, of course! From November 19-22, tho ...
Q: Is Dec. 9 a day of obligation? Is this rule new? Is it just for America? (Rochester, New York) A: Normally, Dec. 9 is not ...
Once upon a time, fasting was an expectation. Prayer, almsgiving (charity) and fasting were seen by the early church as naturally supporting and completing each other. They've been call ...
A true study and understanding of the church's history and experience are needed to help priests better interpret today's world, to make the Gospel more relevant and to counter i ...