
Kolbe House: The Saving Grace of Prison Inmates
This parish-based agency in Chicago offers hope to those jailed in both body and spirit.
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This parish-based agency in Chicago offers hope to those jailed in both body and spirit.

Advent/Christmas calendars are an enjoyable way for everyone, adults, and children alike, to prepare for the feast of Christmas.

Something I find most gratifying about the saints is that they exhibit characteristics that we find in ourselves.

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.

There is a current crisis of Catholic identity, as a generation raised on the possibilities and question marks of Vatican II comes of age without sure answers.

Benediction and adoration can provide God’s nourishment for zealous but sometimes weary disciples.

Touring the Ninth Ward in New Orleans last April was like walking through a bad dream.

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.”

Novenas began in the early Middle Ages in Spain and France as a nine-day preparation before Christmas. The number nine represents the months Jesus lived in his mother’s womb.

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