This is not the year—or the Christmas—we wanted. But God is still with us, and we can still reach out to our neighbors.

Did the old “normal” way of doing things exhaust all possibilities for communal celebration? Is that what we want to return to, even if doing so were possible?

Yes, your life is focused on God but centered by the people God gives you to serve.

Christmas is the chance to welcome the stranger; to be the good innkeeper and not the bad one.

Instead of skipping Mass, try these resources as a complement (not a substitute) to the homily.

Jesus would have definitely taken his paid days of vacation—all of them.

The Catholic student center at Boise State is not all things to all students. Rather, we are one thing to all students.

The choice is yours: Will you be a church consumer or an investor in your parish?

Francis showed us how to risk simply embracing the hurting world. No explaining, just loving.

I was raised Catholic. I know the strategy. The first-class seats are at the end of the pew.