It was the fall of 2020. Our final worship service for the morning had just finished. I was in the lobby greeting first-time guests. As I spoke with a new family, I could feel the presence of a ...

Photo by Tom Keldenich, courtesy of Unsplash. When Isaac-el Fernandes, S.J., delivers a homily he “won’t necessarily remember to say everything that I’ve written,” he says. “But what I will remember ...

We’re in Year C of the liturgical cycle, and that means the Gospel of Luke is the one we’ll hear most often at Sunday Masses this year. Luke’s vision of Jesus is deeply attuned to God’s compassion, ...

Brian dropped by my campus ministry office one day to chat. This was not uncommon as he was one of the students I knew best. He wanted to share about his anxiety, which he had managed to keep hidden ...

The Rev. Harry L. Kaufhold Jr. felt a calling to some type of full-time church-related work when he was just 17 years old. "I was a very shy person - very much intimidated to be in front of a group to ...

(RNS) — Preachers are turning to webinars, directories of appropriate liturgies and moral support from each other as they determine how to address their congregants. (RNS) — As they mount their ...