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When Sister Maria Louise Edwards encountered the remains of a little girl in the desert borderland between the United States and Mexico, she exclaimed: "This little girl mattered!" Although the child's name was never discovered, her existence certainly mattered to ...

In the Book of Ezekiel, God commands the prophet to prophesy and command dry bones to come back to life. The same voice that spoke to Ezekiel compels our bones to rise into the light of God.

Reflect St. Francis of Assisi was Pope Francis‘ “guide and inspiration” for his letter Laudato Si about the environment. Because St. Francis saw the world with more than “intellectual appreciation or economic calculus,” he would sometimes sing in wonder at ...

The saints are popular because they are both holy and wholly relatable. Often we can find aspects of their lives that mirror our own.

Endings are not the end of the story. God is still present when everything else feels unstable.

St. Hildegard of Bingen had a powerful ability to see the work of the divine all around her, in every living thing.