Whether it is a move of the Holy Spirit toward greater unity or cultural appropriation on a massive scale, old school Catholic practices are in.

Examen Fifth Sunday of Lent

From 1969: The difficulties encountered by those who worked long and hard to give us a truly contemporary prayer language in English are here set forth by one who participated in the mammoth task.

A poem by Jessica Powers from The Second “America” Book of Verse, a collection of the best of America poetry, 1930 to 1955.

Don’t get too down on yourself if your Lent hasn’t been perfect. Be easy with yourself. But keep taking those steps towards God.     

There are around 30,000 (including 23,000 Catholics) of them in this majority Muslim nation of 35 million people.

The question of trust, of giving ourselves to something outside ourselves, is quite fundamental. It goes to the nature of who we are as human beings. One might pose the question this way: Are we clams or clovers?

Our shared faith in Christ is a precious inheritance that can by no means be taken for granted but must be re-appropriated ever anew.

"As I see it, this problem is rooted in our society's broader loss of the awareness of God," the archbishop said.

Today the only Christians in the Arabian Peninsula are migrants, and the pope’s visit is a cause of great joy for them.