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The Sorrowful Mysteries

One item stood out among the many religious items of my Grandma Alma's bedroom as I let ...

The Joyful Mysteries

It feels odd to say I have a preferred set of Mysteries of the Rosary to pray. Each of the four ...

Five overlooked moments for sharing faith

We often assign God to boxes without realizing it ...

Learning all about Jesus

Over the summer, we took a family road trip to Pennsylvania, ...

Faith at Home: Passing on the faith through simple acts

Thinking back to my childhood of how the faith was passed down in my family ...

Some good news

Ready for some some good news?

Father Koch: There is much at stake, but we must stand with Peter

In our Catholic tradition we place so little emphasis on a faith decision point, ...

The face in the mirror

When my granddaughter Alice was just months old, she would lie on a blanket, surrounded by a plastic toy ...

What (or who) gives?

My delight in earning a graduate degree in theology this spring has given way to a desire to downsize. 

Let the consumer beware

Within 24 hours of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, my almost 4-year-old daughter asked ...

Father Koch: Mary leads us to eternal life

The Dogma of the Assumption of Mary can be difficult to understand.

When tomorrow is a day too late

The human tendency to postpone and procrastinate is at times ...

Father Koch: Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist

The exchange between Jesus and the crowd becomes increasingly tense.

Father Koch: True faith does not seek signs

The crowd that Jesus feeds with the few loaves and fish was not completely satisfied.

Road trips remind us we pass by this life only once

It was our first cross-country road trip since the COVID-19 pandemic had ...


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