We know that nothing stays the same, yet we live as though nothing ever changes.

To be a creature is to have an origin, one we neither fashioned nor chose. To be a child of God is to have a destiny, one we freely choose, a gift we are given to cherish.

That may indeed happen, and if it does, you will immediately, intuitively know this: You are going to be purified.

If revolt against injustice, oppression and sorrow begins in the heart, it will not die. The broken heart is the tomb from which Christ rises.

St. Thomas never wrote again, though much has been penned about this great theologian’s descent into silence before his death in 1274. What should we make of it?

The people of Nazareth thought that they were putting a local upstart in his place. The sad irony is that they were rejecting God.

The greatest act of reverence we can give to the Scriptures is to prayerfully read them.

Your sins cannot cancel the identity you were given in your baptism. But it is possible to forget who you are.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

St. Matthew’s story of the Magi is the opposite of “Romeo and Juliet”: Heaven finds means to kill our hate with love.