The 5,000-word letter focuses on four themes: pain, gratitude, encouragement and praise.

If we stop criticizing them and listen.

Imagine Jesus were to come into a room and tell you something. You would obviously treasure his words and want to remember exactly what he said. So you’d certainly write them down, maybe even paint them on the wall of every room in your house.

As a priest, ignoring my own emotions and how they may interact with the joys and pains of another is not an option.

For the first time in its 82-year history, Miracle Hill Ministries will allow Catholics to serve as volunteers and employees in its vast network of homeless shelters, thrift stores and drug-recovery programs and as parents to foster children in its government-funded foster care agency.