Sister Brenda Hernandez Valdes, a 34-year-old Daughter of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe, lives more than 1,500 miles from her home in Coahuila, Mexico, serving the sprawling Diocese of Bismarck, N.D., and ministering to the Hispanics working in its booming oil industry.
A keen observer of the natural world, poet Mary Oliver was a herald for our time, combining a love for nature with a quest for transcendence.
Education and advocacy are two ways to promote a pro-life culture and ensure that abortion laws aren’t expanded.
A new Catholic describes the joys and challenges of growing in his newfound faith.
From op-eds to podcast interviews, many Catholics — even those who never could have imagined asking that question — have either entertained it as a passing thought or are seriously weighing their next steps.
How do issues arising from our use of robots link up with our concern about respect for human life? What I found was that, as Pope Francis has reminded us in “Laudato Si'”: “Everything is connected.”
There is a solid scriptural basis for why Christians fasted from the very earliest days of the faith.
While lay people honor their legacy, women religious are hosting events of their own – not to pat themselves on the back but to pay it forward, to continue their work of healing a fractured nation.
