We had an Easter Vigil  here in the house last night. It was a homely, disorganized business. I should have listened better to rubric #3 tha...

From Fr. Cantalamessa's fourth Lenten homily for this year: "I am speaking from experience here. I belong to a religious order in...

I begin to realize that this religious life is made of different seasons. At the beginning were the first steps (and missteps!) in praying a...

A friend of mine wrote to share the news that she had received ecclesiastical approbation for a prayer litany she had composed, the Litany o...

There have been friars here in Rome from all over who will be commissioned today by Pope Francis to be Missionaries of Mercy for the Holy Ye...

When the priests left the holy place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD so that the priests could no longer minister because of the ...

I received a message via the contact form, and given that it touches upon an issue that arises with some frequency in confession, and which ...