Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025, Easter Monday morning, ending an extraordinary papacy that began on a cold evening almost 12 years earlier.
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Every now and then, when I’m thinking about a difficult situation, my wife, Jeannie, will catch me talking about it out loud: More »
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“Hope” is the thing with feathers More »
We all know that life can be difficult at times. It wouldn’t be hard for us to come up with a list of woes that plague the world, issues like war, famine, sexual violence, and grinding poverty. More »
Like many other periods in history, the years leading up to 1300 were dark ones. More »
Join Catholics and Christians from all over the world this week as they pray for Christian Unity. More »
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Did you know that in the American Southeast between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, numerous Catholics, both Spanish and Native American, gave up their lives in witness to their faith in Christ? More »
I will never forget how excited I felt as I opened the letter from the diaconate office for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Long Island. More »
My dad left our family when I was a senior in high school, about twenty years ago. More »