Too often they feel like obligations with barely any holiness and no feasting.

I am learning to meet my summer Mass shake-ups with grace.

While theatrical and beautiful, I have come to understand that the Mass is not a show. It is a miracle.

The lessons we teach in some parishes are not coming from God.

U.S. bishops met for a plenary assembly to discuss various topics including mental health, poverty and youth ministry, as well as hearing proposals from the National Review Board on how to combat sex abuse in the church.

Scott VanDerveer writes his homilies in a coffee shop, where he is surrounded by strangers. “Would what I have to say speak to their life at all,” he asks himself. “Or would they say, ‘Ugh, that’s so churchy?’”