Sometimes they would rustle and fidget impatiently in the pews and fiddle with missals and fold the parish newsletter into ships and trumpets.

Now even the word “scapular” is a rare sighting, let alone the lovely gentle honest thing itself.

The Christos, for a skinny guy, sure was interested in good things to eat.

I watch for it every Easter vigil, and every Easter vigil it happens—this Easter vigil right in front of me where I sat in the second row of the chapel expressly to see it; and once again I nearly burst into tears, because it is so beautiful and subtle and gentle and heartrending and amazing,

Life, death and the home country

"If you are distracted by a little kid being a little kid you are not focused on what’s holy. Little kids are holy. Let it be."

Understanding the third person, the Holy Trinity and The Monsignor

Brian Doyle recalls his first encounter with a Jesuit, a huge and humble priest.

The sacred and secular meet in a future priest's experience on the battlefield.

Here’s a wonderful, redolent, crucial part of our Catholic childhoods.