The sacredness of life and the dignity that has been bestowed upon each of our lives provides a solid foundation, especially at a time when the ground beneath us is shifting and quaking.

September: A Month to Turn to Mary The month of September contains many opportunities to honor Our Lady, the humble woman of Nazareth. Some of these memorials in the Church’s liturgical calendar are more hidden than others. We celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on September 8thand the Holy Name of Mary on September 12th.

It all began 800 years ago with a light shining in the darkness of confusion and false reality. St. Dominic had a hope for humanity, founded upon a Presence that was certain. This Presence of God needed to be known so humanity would be free to see Truth. As the Gospel of John applies Psalm 69:9 to the impassioned Christ, “zeal for your house will consume me,”

Saint Dominic was a man moved by his engagement with reality. The Albigensian heresy ran strong in St. Dominic’s time, teaching that things of the physical world – material and created things – were evil and corrupt. It went so far as to devalue the humanity of Christ and the holiness of the sacraments, as they too were considered physical realities.

We are all living through a time of deep suffering in today’s world. As Catholics, we experience the Cross in a unique way this year as so many are deprived of […]

Every March, two spousal solemnities fall amid the penitential season of Lent. The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary on March 19 and The Solemnity of the […]

Celebrating the Fourth Joyful Mystery…. and Four Joyful Foundresses The Fourth Joyful Mystery:The Presentation of our Lord in the Temple In January 1997, Pope Saint John Paul II instituted the World […]

January 22, the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, is designated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as a day of prayer for the full restoration of the legal […]

God the Father destined us in love to be His sons and daughters through Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. The Mission of Jesus Christ is summed up in:  The […]