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For years Montgomery Ward had bought coloring books and distributed them at stores as a Christmas giveaway. This time around executives decided to save money by creating their own booklet – and asked Robert May to write it. 

“It is necessary to sit in the school of Advent so that we can learn that in our darkest hour it is safe to trust and that perhaps, it is in our darkest hour, that it is safest to trust.”

Advent liturgies speak to us of a message of reform and hope.

Perhaps one of the most interesting findings of the recent report is the observation that less than half of Hispanics in our country self-identify as Catholic (about 47%). As far as memory goes, we have practically taken for granted the assumption that the majority of Hispanics are Catholic. No longer.

I’d suggest three ideas, three approaches to these days that can help us experience Advent the way it was meant to be.

Gratitude is a powerful tool in our fight for holiness, and it’s a tool that we rarely pick up.

During the month of November, the Catholic Church asks the faithful to spend 30 days praying for the dead.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian immigrant and first canonized U.S. citizen, had strength and vision of a woman who should not be dismissed easily.