The Advent season is a time of hopeful accompanying We accompany the Holy Family on their journey We accompany Christ as he enters into this world We accompany each other in an effort to make Christ 39 s continued presence known today This Advent nbsp America nbsp will offer daily Advent refle

It all comes back to this: to wait upon the Lord. The promise has been made. And now, we wait.

The Christian must strive to live, and even to die, as Christ did: generous in adversity, vulnerable in love.

For the mystic—and in heaven—time falls away. Frustration gives way to fulfillment.

"The Bible: A Book for the Family" is this year’s theme for Bible Week, building on the Synod of Bishops on the Family and Pope Francis's visit to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.

The positions taken by the Roman Catholic Church on divorce, remarriage and communion are not self-evident, but the product of numerous interpretive moves.