Bishops in several dioceses have recently begun to lift the general dispensations from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass that they had decreed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Numbers of new ...

This Solemnity of the Sacred Heart is not just a historical devotion but a celebration of the Lord Jesus himself. Corrado Giaquinto, “The Blessed Trinity and the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” 1754 (photo: ...

In graduate school, I was a staunch defender of the Eastern approach to initiation. The baptized child receives all at the same time the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist. This ...

In late December 2009, on a sunny Florida afternoon, my 81-year-old mother stepped across my sister’s kitchen, caught her foot on the hem of her pink bathrobe and fell onto the ceramic tile floor. She ...

When it comes to the wonders of the mysteries of the sacraments, our Lord, through his church, wants us to understand that the sacraments are: of Christ, of the church, of faith, of salvation and of ...