Your sins cannot cancel the identity you were given in your baptism. But it is possible to forget who you are.

A Reflection for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

St. Matthew’s story of the Magi is the opposite of “Romeo and Juliet”: Heaven finds means to kill our hate with love.

Can we allow this truth, this person named Jesus—this God for whom love alone is credible—to truly possess our hearts in the year ahead?

Danger, death, disbelief appears everywhere. We shall not be overcome.

The gospel is more recipe than record. The only way you know that you have received the gift of Christmas is to live in love.