Free, educated, and beautiful, Henriette Delille enjoyed the highest status possible for a black woman in a slave state before the Civil War. Yet, out of love for God, Henriette chose to exchange a life of relative ease and wealth for one of poverty and struggle. More »

Nature illustrates the harmony of life in this world. For example, trees provide us with oxygen to sustain our lives while we provide them with the carbon dioxide they need. More »

Is this letter for real? Did Jesus really want the members of the church in Sardis to produce nothing but “perfect works”? If that’s the case, then maybe it’s true that very few people indeed will make it to heaven. After all, who among us can confess to having done everything perfectly? More »

Did You Know? There’s a Patron Saint for Business Men and Women. . .St. Homobonus (November 13) More »

In June 2002, a gunman entered Conception Abbey in Missouri and killed two monks before killing himself. The man had no known connection to the abbey or any of its monks. No motive has yet been discovered. More »

My last boyfriend called it “stacking.” “You’re stacking,” he’d say, when he caught me unnecessarily reviewing every problem that I might possibly have in a lifetime all at once, rather than dealing with problems that were present and solvable. More »

With November, we enter the season of last things. Those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere are watching the last leaf fall, the last bird fly south for the winter. It is a month that is a special time to reflect on what spiritual writers have traditionally called “the four last things”—death and judgment, heaven and hell. More »

All Saints Day is a perfect time to celebrate the heroic and inspiring lives of the many great saints of the church and to help your family to know and love them. Here are a few family activities that work well: More »