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Off to WYD: Maryland family of 10 heads to Lisbon for special pilgrimage

July 31, 2023

A family of 10 is packing their bags and getting ready to embark on a journey they’re calling their “last hurrah as a family unit.” John and Alexis Love are a Catholic couple from Maryland who, along with their eight children — Anthony, 18; Rosemary,

Looking for the Lord Jesus in Lisbon

July 26, 2023

In mid-May, I spent two intense days in Lisbon, where a new Portuguese edition of my Letters to a Young Catholic was being prepared as a catechetical resource for World Youth Day 2023. In and around that wonderful city, I had the pleasure of meeting with

Finding ‘God in pots and pans’ – and on MasterChef

July 3, 2023

MasterChef is perhaps the best-known culinary competition show in the world, with dozens of editions in countries around the world. Spain is no exception, where the show has 11 seasons under its belt — and Spain’s version of the show is popular in parts of

Deacons as Apostles for the New Evangelization

March 22, 2023

“Whoever believes that Christ the Lord is the way, the truth and the life, whoever knows that the Church is his continuation in history, whoever has a personal experience of all this cannot fail, for this very reason, to become fervently missionary. Dear deacons, be

The Adventure of Living in Christ

February 28, 2023

Jesus is Lord” is the earliest and simplest Christian confession of faith recorded in the Scriptures. St. Paul, in one of his prized expressions for the Christian life, describes the believer as one who lives, or exists, “in Christ.” Reciprocally, he speaks about the graced

A Warning Ignored

January 30, 2023

Thirty-seven years ago today, on January 28, 1986, seven astronauts suffered a horrendous death as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air seventy-three seconds after takeoff. Almost anyone, at least in America, who was alive at that moment has the visual image of that explosion etched

Synodality for the Rest of Us

December 13, 2022

There has been a lot of talk in the Catholic world over the past year on the concept of synodality—the idea of coming together and agreeing on a path forward by consensus rather than by diktat. The bishops in Germany have been particularly vocal about this as the pathway

World Cup: Polish captain shares the importance of his faith

November 29, 2022

With the World Cup garnering millions of viewers around the world, it’s always heartening to see players sharing their faith. This was just the case with Robert Lewandowski, a striker for Barcelona who is also captain of his national team, Poland. The devout Catholic and father of

Bishop Chad Zielinski: From Active Duty to Alaskan Shepherd

October 17, 2022

From Northern Michigan to the Middle East, to the remote reaches of North America, and now back in the rural Midwest, Bishop Chad Zielinski, 57, has served the Church’s peripheries, bringing the life of Christ to members of the armed forces, native Alaskans and small-town parishioners

Died: Brother Andrew, Who Smuggled Bibles into Communist Countries

September 29, 2022

Anne van der Bijl, a Dutch evangelical known to Christians worldwide as Brother Andrew, the man who smuggled Bibles into closed Communist countries, has died at the age of 94. Van der Bijl became famous as “God’s smuggler” when the first-person account of his missionary adventures—slipping