For the mystic—and in heaven—time falls away. Frustration gives way to fulfillment.

"The Bible: A Book for the Family" is this year’s theme for Bible Week, building on the Synod of Bishops on the Family and Pope Francis's visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.

The positions taken by the Roman Catholic Church on divorce, remarriage and communion are not self-evident, but the product of numerous interpretive moves.

The last day of life is like those that precede it. Either we open ourselves to the mystery or we withdraw into the citadel of the self.

To pray is always to call down the eternal into the temporal. That is what we do today for our dead.

This feast day is good time to remember that there is really only one thing about which we should be anxious.