
The Trials of the Holy Family Echo Today
As Christmas approaches, I’m prompted to give you my take on Nativity stories involving the Holy Family. These stories might help us all become more mindful of the poor in our midst.
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As Christmas approaches, I’m prompted to give you my take on Nativity stories involving the Holy Family. These stories might help us all become more mindful of the poor in our midst.

His cause for sainthood was blocked for decades. Now the Church has beatified this Salvadoran archbishop.

This parish-based agency in Chicago offers hope to those jailed in both body and spirit.

Today there are 20 decades to the Rosary. I find each mystery celebrating an event in Jesus’ and Mary’s life a thing of beauty.

For centuries, Catholics have visited places linked to Jesus, to Mary or to other saints, partly as a way of acknowledging that we are always “on pilgrimage.”

May Crowning and other Marian devotions remind us to honor our heavenly Mother all year.

Murdered for her defense of the farmers and the rainforest of Brazil, Sister Dorothy Stang died with great courage and faith.

The powerful faith and admirable qualities of mothers featured in the Bible often remind us of loving mothers that we have known.