Have I found myself only doing or saying a thing simply so that others would notice? If I have, then I need to take another look at my heart and my motivations to make sure I am not merely pretending, to make sure I am not a hypocrite.
Ask Father Mike: When we feel like hypocrites and phonies
Michigan grandfather, mystic and stigmatist had the healing touch — could he be a saint?
Irving Houle had prayed for, and apparently received throughout the last 16 years of his life, the privilege to share in Christ’s sufferings as a disciple in a particularly unique way; he apparently had the stigmata.
Father Ron Rolheiser: Our Deepest Loneliness
Lonliness can affect us in different ways. We feel restlessness despite experiencing intimacy, and we feel a nostalgia for a home we can never quite find.
Apostolate addresses often overlooked grief from pregnancy, infant loss
How can the Catholic Church accompany those experiencing miscarriage and infant-loss?
The journey home
“We all are really walking each other home, to that next place called heaven.”
Father Ron Rolheiser: A Single Line Says It All!
St. Augustine felt there is an incurable restlessness inside each of us that keeps us perpetually dis-eased spirituality.
U.S. shrines boast massive numbers of saint relics
Several sites in the United States are home to vast collections of relics, and one shrine in Ohio, is home to over 1,100 relics in 970 reliquaries representing 900 saints.
Observing Hispanic Heritage Month as Catholics
During Hispanic Heritage Month, we all are invited to honor and highlight the many stories, experiences, and contributions of Hispanics living in the United States, which are integral to who we are as a nation.