Wow! Did you ever feel like that was happening? Maybe you didn't think you would die, but did you ever feel paralyzed, unable to reply or think of a way to deal with something? Then there's the ...

Everyone waits for something. Maybe it’s a job or a promotion. Maybe you’re waiting to meet the right man or woman. Maybe you’re waiting for God to reveal some clear direction or vocation in your life ...

Before the Eucharist this afternoon, I was hearing the confessions celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation. It occurred to me how these readings of today are very appropriate as a preparation for ...

If anyone were to ask about the state of Christian belief in a culture increasingly determined on disbelief, take a look at what has happened to Advent, a season whose original meaning has more and ...

When I tell her I am 32 years old, she insists it is not possible. “You are my grandpa; you cannot be younger than my daddy.” But the truth of the matter is that I am only 32. I was born again 32 ...

When I married my wife, we repeated the customary wedding vows promising to cherish one another “in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth.” Perhaps we should have added an additional line.

Sarah is waiting — waiting for God to talk to her, waiting for her priest to grant her absolution and waiting for a boy to return. We, too, are waiting — waiting for something, anything that raises ...

She was one of the great enigmas of the 20th century, a contradiction made flesh. A girl with boyish traits. A privileged child who spurned the privileged life. A Jew who loathed her heritage and ...

Only once have I seen an audience walk out on a dramatic performance. In the second act of Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (written 1952), there weren’t enough people in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre ...

But let there be no mistake about it; God would never forsake His children. He says: “Zion said, ‘The Lord has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.’ Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not ...