My latest (and seventh) book of seasonal Scripture reflections — Waiting in Joyful Hope: Daily Reflections for Advent and Christmas 2025-2026 — has recently been released by Liturgical Press. Here are the opening paragraphs of my introduction to this new ...
Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, our home was adorned with a large portrait of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The same one hung in my grandmother’s home. Back ...
Happy Feast of St. Joan of Arc!
When I was in a difficult stretch a few years back, Joan of Arc became my guide and inspiration. I had the image you see ...
Every woman should watch this. And maybe every man as well. I’ve been a fan of Andie MacDowell since the 1980s, when I carried a magazine picture of her in ...
Sure the Christmas season is still in our rearview mirror, but who doesn't love a reason to dip our toes into the next Advent and Christmas season a little ...
It was 17 years ago today — on the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalists — that I launched this blog. (You can read my original blog ...
Wildfires and wars, sickness and suffering of every kind. It can sometimes leave us crying out: “Where are you, God?” The silence can feel deafening at ...
As we cross the threshold of a new year, can we embrace what's ahead — with all its messiness and challenge — and offer ourselves and our world compassion ...
We stand on the cusp of a new year, another threshold, which, oddly enough, tends to get us thinking not about where we are standing at that moment but about ...
