Our Lady of Guadalupe "calls a people into a new home. Those who had lost a place of divine communion find it anew."

No less an authoritative voice than that of Michael Caine intones the professorial judgment ldquo We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us rdquo nbsp The irrepressible Matthew McConaughey responds ldquo Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the worl

Suppose you have no desire to go on nbsp Suppose the world has oozed into another holiday season but you can rsquo t even feign enjoyment of family and friends nbsp To you the entire season seems hollow and fragile like cheap ceramic ornaments on trees nbsp Suicides go up during the holiday

A reflection for the final Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Photographic images helped to end the war in Vietnam a Vietcong prisoner shot point-blank in his temple a screaming young girl running naked after a napalm attack a Buddhist monk transformed into a human torch in protest of the war Since then American troops go to war under Pentagon-imposed

A story from the pope's cathedral that's too good not to be true

What Jennifer Lawrence can teach us about our pasts, on this side of the grave and beyond.

Here rsquo s how young Pip learned that he had great expectations One day the lawyer Mr Jaggers showed up at the forge where young Pip lived and worked and said to Joe the blacksmith Pip rsquo s adult brother-in-law I am instructed to communicate to him rdquo said Mr Jaggers throwing his

A reflection for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

We see life rsquo s most important scenes more fully through the lenses of time and memory Sometimes there rsquo s a surfeit in the original spectacle too many rich details to absorb With the distance of years they come into focus and we recognize their import Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven