It was a lazy Sunday morning when my 6-year-old daughter came skipping down the stairs, greeting us at the breakfast table. My brother-in-law was in town visiting, and we were all sipping on coffee, ...

I had agreed, along with 11 other people from my congregation, to attend a program on congregational discernment, but I was not looking forward to it. I was skeptical of the diocese’s ability to teach ...

The word discernment has a central, even critically important place in the development of “The Joy of Love,” Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the family. In referring to discernment ...

Pope Francis holds a gift during his general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 21, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, delivered ...

A youth was gifted a wild ass on his birthday. Aiming to befriend the beast, he mounted it. Unbridled, the ass sped through town at breakneck speed with the terrified youth clinging on. “Where are you ...