Recently I got into a conversation with a few fellow Catholics about confession.

Deep beneath the Eternal City of Rome is a vast maze of underground tunnels used by the first Christians who inhabited the ancient city.

A friend of mine liked to quote a saint – I don’t remember which one – who said that food is God’s love made edible.

When World War II broke out in 1939, Karol Wojtyla, the future St. John Paul II, had just turned 19.

Our first reading contains a symbolic story in which a kind of Everywoman and Everyman face a basic human question: How will I live – God’s way or my way?

"You are standing on the site where enslaved people were warehoused.”

Each year on Feb. 8, the church marks the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita.

Today’s Gospel features parallel statements by Jesus. He begins, each time, with “you have heard that it was said ...”

St. Angela’s Feast Day is a tradition through which Ursuline Academy lives out its motto of “Serviam” (“I will serve”).       

Every year during the first week of school, we go over procedures with our brand-new kindergarten students....

The first Christian communities were made up of small groups of disciples of Jesus....

In the words of St. Gregory the Great, “(St. Scholastica) could do more because she loved more...."

During the fall semester,  advertisements for high schools and colleges fill the pages of diocesan newspapers as eighth graders and 12th graders – and their families – try to select the place they will.....

At the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church committed herself irrevocably to following the path of the ecumenical venture, thus heeding the Spirit of the Lord, who teaches people to interpret carefully the “signs of the times” (Pope St. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter, “Ut Unum Sint,” 1995).

Last October, the Clarion Herald published “A Pastoral Letter on the Death Penalty” by the East St. Tammany-Washington Deanery (https://tinyurl.com/wk9f3kj). Here’s the story of how it came to be, offered as an example of clergy-lay collaboration....

Alyssa explains her drawing: “This is actually the monstrance that we have the host in during adoration. So, I thought what better way to show that than to literally put Christ on a Christmas tree? I came up with the idea for the piece while I was in adoration. I had a vision. As for the berries in the Christmas tree, I had that idea while I was in Mass. For the holidays, my family and I always go to Christmas Eve Mass.

How is your supply of Christmas cheer doing these days? Mine is in rather short supply. Every year around this time I grouse about the Christmas ads in September and the Christmas music in October, the carefully crafted marketing intended to prompt a Pavlovian response of debt-fueled consumerism.