Mary

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I will keep this very brief, with the help...

I have been so busy working on my project that I have nearly forgotten to...

Our friends, the Dominican Nuns of Summit, NJ have a lovely tradition on the vigil...

"Your birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaims joy to the whole world, for from...

I've never understood why people who have no problem with Elijah and Enoch being assumed...

My latest column at The Catholic Answer is called "Our Professors, Who Art in Heaven"...

My column in the latest Catholic Answer Magazine, is entitled "Mary, Mystery and Imagination", and...

Reposted (with edits) from 2009 A few years ago, I recorded an 8 minute podcast...

I've never understood why people who have no problem with Elijah and Enoch being assumed...

That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a...

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven....

Well, in a manner of speaking. I hope when I die, my kids can manage...

The header is true! May is the month for all of that; it's also the...

Earlier today I noted that we'd seen a remarkable lack of the usual media attempts...

Aside from being aggravated by some minor, but continual, issues with my computer today, I'm...

About 20 hours from the time of this writing, The Year of Faith will be...

Whenever my younger son is particularly happy he lets out with a dazzling grin and...

Last night, my husband got home from an outing and watched The Descendents, starring George...

At the cross, her station keeping + + + + + + Mary’s role in...

And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him; and Simeon...

Sent along by reader Vicki, who is not Catholic, this video is one of the...

Father James Martin graciously permits Patheos to excerpt a chapter of his wonderful book My...

The Annunciation by Waterhouse A little collection of links and videos appropriate to the Holy...

Eve and Mary* by Sr. Grace Remington, O.C.S.O "Eve" When we left the garden we...

When I studied Anatomy and Physiology in college, the lesson that included microchimerism, became instructive...

15th-century Madonna Della Strada at Gesu One of our first stops in Rome was to...

A while back I received a review galley of Judith Dupre's upcoming book, Full of...

The unemployment numbers are looking pretty dismal and bleak, aren't they? A while back, I...

Prelude to the second reading at Vigils (Office of Readings): Sacred Scripture celebrated the beauty...

Benedict and Baby in Fatima Benedict has Flown to Portugal Half a million pilgrims turned...