Praying for holiness and the kingdom

The Church’s saints have always recognized that the Lord’s Prayer is a summary of his whole Gospel. And each word and phrase in the prayer is a rich source for us to contemplate and reflect on.

Praying as children

We have so much to pray for in our lives and in our troubled world.

Reflections on ‘The Joy of Love’

Pope Francis has asked us to read his new apostolic exhortation on marriage and the family slowly and patiently. And I have been trying to do that since it was published late last week.

Praying the Our Father

We are still living in the beautiful and joyful light of Easter! And I want to return in my column to the theme of prayer that I introduced during Lent.

In this time of Easter

I hope that you and your loved ones and families had a blessed Easter. I shared Easter here with my family and it was a beautiful time.

Holy Week and the Supreme Court

We are preparing to enter into the most sacred days in the Church’s calendar — Holy Week, the week of our salvation.

Stopping the Christian ‘genocide’

The story of Christianity is written in the blood of martyrs.

It is always striking to me that on the day after the joyous feast of Christmas, the Church’s liturgy remembers the first martyr, the deacon St. Stephen. And nearly every week throughout the year, our liturgy remembers the witness of someone who has shed his blood or her blood for following Jesus.

Where God’s desire meets our own

I was inspired to see so many of you at our Religious Education Congress this weekend.

Reflections on Pope Francis in Juárez

Last week, I had the privilege to cross over the border into Mexico and concelebrate Mass with our Holy Father Pope Francis in Ciudad Juárez.

Seeking the face of God in the Scriptures

Prayer is seeking the face of God.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church recalls the story of how St. John Vianney once found a peasant praying in front of the Blessed Sacrament. The saint asked him what he was doing, and the man replied: “I look at him and he looks at me.”