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Trusting in God's hidden hand

Faith teaches us that divine providence is somehow at work behind the scenes in the day-to-day events of our lives. Ask yourself, How did your parents meet?

Exploring Lessons from Mary

Since Pope Francis spoke of “feminine genius,” I get questions periodically as to what it possibly means. Does it refer to the instincts that women have for people with their intuitive sense of the interior?

Pope Francis and his popularity

Pope Francis' popularity continues to grow as more Americans embrace his message of togetherness, community, inclusion and equality -- a message that transcends partisan politics.

The Pope's ravioli story: questions that unlock wisdom

I’m reading a book that speaks to me as a journalist, Brian Grazer’s 2015 release “A Curious Mind: The Secret To A Bigger Life.” In it, the 64-year-old Emmy-winning movie producer recounts his practice of conducting “curiosity conversations” twice a month for the past three decades to fill up his …

Turning off the noise to listen to God

I sit at the desk in my little home office. A fall sun streams through the window, pouring brilliant light on my plant. If a plant could speak, I know it would tell me how happy it is. 

Catechesis can safeguard the dignity of every human person

Catechetical Sunday, which is observed on the third Sunday in September, is a celebration of catechists and all teachers of the Catholic faith.

Hospice as a blessing for a family

Looking back more than three years, I would call them angels of mercy. At the time, as they sat at our dining room table, I probably thought of them more as messengers of death.

A heart filled with God is a home for prayer

When my adult son, a father of two young sons, posted a Facebook photo of a little hand trying to push under a bathroom door and the photo title was “They Will Find You,” I laughed out loud.

Looking for the holy in supernatural events

Have you ever had an out-of-body-experience? Hundreds of books have been written about it going back centuries.

Can't travel to explore your faith? Try a virtual pilgrimage

Last year, a group of parishioners and our pastor embarked on an enviously intriguing pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, and along the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, in Spain, and then went on to Fatima, Portugal. 

How does faith intersect with disability?

That man in a wheelchair just off the Wal-Mart parking lot? The one cadging spare change from passersby? He's disabled.

Becoming a nation of service

America could become a service nation if we had the will to revive civilian national service.

World Meeting of Families opens with high hopes in the face of global and local challenges

For a long weekend in August 1993, Denver was the center of the Catholic world. World Youth Day brought hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to central Colorado to visit with now-St. Pope John Paul II, culminating in Mass with a half-million attendees at a state park.

Elders are called to pass on the music of our faith

On a Christmas morning, long ago, my son gave me a gift I had long desired – an Irish flute.

Invited to the canonization Mass!

I was thrilled to learn I would be one of the people from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to attend the Sept. 23 Mass outside Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception where Pope Francis would canonize Blessed Junipero Serra.


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