Michael Sean Winters: This World Meeting of Families is not the spectacle we saw in previous years. It has gained in depth anything it lost in breadth, mostly because of what Pope Francis said at the event.
Novena for Pentecost: Join Dan Schutte in a virtual novena for Pentecost. To be faithful requires a certain degree of detachment because sometimes we're asked to give up our own plans, our own security, to follow faithfully on the path where God leads.
Novena for Pentecost: Join Dan Schutte in a virtual novena for Pentecost. The discipline that we pray for today is one which understands that all goodness comes from God. Any holiness that we might achieve is the result of God's work in us.
In NCR interviews, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy and Cheyenne Bishop Steven Biegler urged laity to develop their prayer lives and reach out to those in need in this unprecedented time.
I am in my late 70s, but it has only been recently that I have begun to experience grace arising from the worst kind of pain, from the depths of pain, and in the death of two of my children.
Appreciation: The Trappist monk, writer and photographer, also known as Jeff, died Aug. 15 at age 71. His work always carried the message of St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Everything is grace.
Distinctly Catholic: In this vale of tears, dogs bring more than companionship. They bring love, the unconditional love of a kind we humans are not capable and that we associate with the divine.
Movie review: Look for echoes of Flannery O'Connor in writer-director Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards," a story that works on human, religious and theological levels.
