I was about five years old when I proudly announced at a family party that smoking turns lungs black and...

We’ve walked through the desert, we have joyfully celebrated the Resurrection of our Lord, and we are back to Ordinary...

The rich young man from today’s Gospel (Mark 10:17-27) and I have a lot more in common than I’d like...

My son is the world’s most inquisitive observer and its biggest skeptic. He is perpetually certain that his questions will...

A lot of things have changed in the two thousand years since Jesus lived on Earth. But getting rebuked for...

I dance around it all of the time. “Mayyyybe,” I’ll say with a twinge of hesitation. “Perhaps,” I’ll respond with...

Happy Thursday. It’s the ordinary-est of days. It’s the first week back to Ordinary time after weeks of rending our...

When I was in intensive training to become a Montessori teacher, I was amazed by the powerful unity and friendship...

Have you exhausted your lovers? The Lord’s question threw me off guard, but I knew exactly what He meant. In...

This year, the feast of Pentecost has a special meaning to me because my daughter will be receiving her Confirmation....

What did you do yesterday? Do you have to pull out your Blessed is She Liturgical Planner to remember (because...

I am a student of human development. How people grow and change is something that drives me, fascinates me, and...

Two years ago, I had the privilege of accompanying my 101-year-old grandmother, the matriarch of our Jewish family, to death’s...

I’ve always had an aversion to saying good-bye. It is difficult to think that I might not see someone I...

A scream pierced the darkness. I awoke, dazed, as my husband stumbled from the bed to flip on the glaring...

In the nine verses that make up today’s Gospel passage there are two words that get repeated over and over:...

Every Sunday at Mass, we recite the Nicene Creed and proclaim our belief that Jesus “ascended into Heaven and is...