We are about a quarter of the way through the season of Lent. So, the words of the column's title are familiar to us as they return each Lent in the prayers of the liturgy and in our own practices ...

This week, we find ourselves in the early days of a specific liturgical season known as Lent. Lent is a designated time ...

Today is St Patrick's Day. But there's a lot of misconception and myth that abounds about the patron saint of Ireland.

Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, justice and concern for those most impoverished and ...

Baptism was instituted ... us from the eternal punishment and generally only from part of the temporal. Prayer, good works and indulgences in this world and the sufferings of purgatory in the ...

Michael Wagner and his pregnant wife, Joanne, were traveling to the March for Life in Washington in 1976 when she — and their ...

39 1238 The baptismal water is consecrated by a prayer of epiclesis (either at this moment or at the Easter Vigil). The Church asks God that through his Son the power of the Holy Spirit may be ...

The Department of Natural Resources, under Hilary Franz, recently opened the Thorpe property, near the Pullman Highway, to a thousand-home development. The parallels to L.A. are scary. Spokane’s ...

As the Diocese of Brooklyn began the Lenten season with Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn on Ash Wednesday, Bishop Robert Brennan opened the season of fasting, prayer, ...

In these first two weeks of Lent, we've begun a new stage of our Holy Year pilgrimage. We've seen human frailty and the glory ...

The transfiguration prepares us for the passion, death and resurrection of the Lord. St. Luke’s telling of the event draws us into the mystery of divine love, a love that embraces human suffering and ...

Celebrating Easter together might seem like a simple expression of union, but it can also breathe new life into efforts ...