Forget Broadway! On Dec. 5, the hottest ticket in town was the taping of “A New York Christmas to Remember” at the Church of St....
Reading 1: Is 11:1-10 On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The...
Father Frank Desiano, CSP Advent has a kind of schizophrenia that disarms us. It comes at the darkest time of the year, when turned-back clocks...
Reading 1: Is 2:1-5 This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In days to come, the mountain of the LORD’s...
Father Michael McGarry, CSP, President of the Paulist Fathers As I searched for a few quotations to wiggle their way into this short meditation on...
It might have been difficult to see, surrounded as it was by the small crowd gathered on the southwest corner of the intersection of Guadalupe...
BUSAN, South Korea – A year after the Catholic Synod of Bishops met in Rome to reflect on the New Evangelization, the 10th Assembly of...
By Father Tom Ryan, CSP, for Catholic News Service BUSAN, South Korea – Often, people look at church congregations and meetings and wonder, “Where...
The year was 1972, and Father Walter J. Dalton, CSP, was celebrating Masses in the homes of the faithful of Horseshoe Bay, Texas. Some 41...
It’s 1931 in Bakersfield, Calif. America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs....
The following are unpublished thoughts of Servant of God Isaac Hecker on the spiritual life. Written in July 1860, just before the election of Abraham...
John and Tery Gay led a successful Living the Eucharist program at their parish, Corpus Christi Church in Round Lake, N.Y. More than 1,200 registered...