As Advent hurtles towards a close, it is my hope that our readings have illuminated the freedom we find in the commitment to prayer.

Reformers might rail against sacred images, but, at Christmas, the world turns Catholic to gaze upon the Christ child.

The relationship with Christ that we cultivate through prayer is grounded in his complete understanding of who we are, down to speaking our very name.

As long as I have lived here, almost 30 years now, a mockingbird has arrived every spring and stayed until the approach of winter.

The Vatican on Dec. 7 declared that persons with 'homosexual tendencies' cannot be admitted to Catholic seminaries.