Why do Catholics celebrate holy days of obligation? Should we?

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Delaney Coyne

The way a presider celebrates Mass can illuminate the congregation's experience of liturgy.

'Exodus 90' is meant as a spiritual and athletic exercise for men that centers on prayer, fasting and fraternity. It gets some things wrong and some things right. In the process, it reveals some of the failures of the church today.

A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, by Sam Sawyer, S.J.

Hallmark movies are inherently a part of the Christmas season and remind viewers over and over that it’s possible to find love after grief.

Each year we lose or break a figure in our Nativity scene, but the beauty of this family tradition lies in its brokenness.

The Christmas fair in Madrid was the work of Fundación Contemplare, a nonprofit set up to help Spain’s monasteries continue a legacy of gourmet baked goods and handmade candies but also, more importantly, to support contemplative life and reconnect monasteries with the world around them.

A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Advent, by Colleen Dulle

This year in Bethlehem, we are waiting for a hope that I am not sure I would even be able to believe in anymore, except that it does not entirely depend on us.