The word "mentor" is defined as "a wise and trusted counselor or teacher." To me, a female mentor is supposed...

Our very first Lent book exclusively for men is coming out this year... and it's a special one. Father Innocent...

Friends, we have come to the end of our Prayer Pledge. Each year, this seems to sneak up on me,...

Sometimes hope looks a lot like perseverance.  I love the imagery in our Prayer Pledge's verse from Isaiah: when we...

It’s springtime in the Middle East and my 10-year-old recently planted seeds in our garden. He frequents the sun soaked...

I couldn’t stop fidgeting from joint aches as I desperately searched for padded pews at Mass that day. My body...

What if he can’t fight this...? I wondered. My closest friend’s six-week-old baby boy was diagnosed with a rare terminal...

"Hoping against hope, Abraham believed, and thus became the father of many nations." // Catechism of the Catholic Church 1819...

It was a busy day at work when the phone rang. The tone of my husband instantly spelled dreadful news....

I attended a retreat for women writers in 2008 and had the privilege to study under Kentucky’s poet laureate at...

Soon after Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army in 1975, thousands of civilians were imprisoned. One of these was...

My mind froze trying to grapple how a friend—someone who knew me so intimately—could betray me. I often chide and...

Omnipotent. I remember learning this word while studying vocabulary, and the example used was that of an “all-powerful†God. I...

The idea of “living in the moment†sounds blissful, right? Yet sometimes it can be so very hard to do. ...

It's the mark of the first Beatitude, and yet we are quick to breeze past it. It's why the rich...

Years ago, shortly after my grandfather died, I asked my grandma how she was doing and what it was like...

I was going for an afternoon walk with a friend when she was telling me about a conversation she had...