How do our religious leaders launch this spirited season of Advent in the hope of spiritual healing? Above all else, Saint Paul counsels: “Don’t stifle the spirit!”

I am generally a joyful person, a loving person, a forgiving person, but right now I am struggling to be any of those things.

If any app helps people to be more patient, humble, just, and attentive to the poor, it’s a good thing. But being an active member of a real community is likely needed as well.

“Everyone can find in St. Joseph—the man who goes unnoticed, the man of daily presence, of discreet and hidden presence—an intercessor, a support and a guide in times of difficulty.”

How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?

Here is a way to show how much you really love your children: Do the paperwork.