Faith When You Feel Nothing
Christopher Wesley
September 18, 2025
Some days faith feels like a fire. Other days it’s a cold ember, barely glowing.
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Mary Finds Us
Maureen O'Brien
September 17, 2025
It is our mother who will never forget. It is our mother who will always find her child.
Do the Next Right Thing
Kyle Kramer
September 17, 2025
It’s not easy to navigate life. With so many complex choices and so many challenges, it can feel like we’re driving through fog with dim headlights and no GPS.
Excommunicated for an Abortion?
Pat McCloskey, OFM
September 17, 2025
Our diocese distributed a pamphlet on examining your conscience. It states that having an abortion or encouraging a woman to do so would mean automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church. If I do that, is this so?
Don’t Live in Yesterday
Colleen Arnold, MD
September 16, 2025
How often do we get so fixated on the past that we find ourselves stuck and unable to move into the present
Which Path Will You Take?
Melanie Rigney
September 15, 2025
As director of a Guadalajara hospital, Madre Nati chose not to treat the soldiers entering the building with the same disrespect that their government showed Catholics.
Hearts Conformed to Christ
Roch Niemier, OFM
September 14, 2025
It is true that St. Francis, with his whole heart, wanted to imitate his Lord and Master.
Lifted by Love
Ela Milewska
September 14, 2025
The cross was once a sign of humiliation and death. But because of Jesus, it has become a sign of freedom, hope, and boundless love.
Missing Mass on Sunday
Pat McCloskey, OFM
September 14, 2025
As an 80-year-old Catholic, I was taught that missing Mass through your own fault is a mortal sin that, if unconfessed and unabsolved, could send you to hell forever. I know friends and other Catholics who are good people but no longer go to Mass. How could a merciful God condemn them to hell forever?
The obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation is serious but must be understood in relation to other serious obligations. Caring for a terminally ill spouse or child is a greater obligation than attending Sunday Mass.
Longing for God
Jack Wintz, OFM
September 13, 2025
It is our Christian belief that when Christ, the Incarnate Word, came to dwell among us, we entered a whole new era of God’s saving presence in our world.