When Mary offered her flawless “yes,” humanity itself, in one instance, gave itself, utterly and completely, to God.

Reflect, for a moment, on these 12 types of people sitting next to you in church this Sunday.

Because we moderns cannot recognize sin, we have to do more than urge people to reject it.

The future demands faith. Either we summon it and nurture it, or fear will rule our final days.

When the Spirit is knocked out of you, you understand that it was never really yours.

A solitary image, of ourselves or others, is often more misleading than life-giving.

The saints are passionate; the lukewarm are professional.

God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.

Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.

We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.