Two or three times at Mass this month, we’ve read the following Gospel passage: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder ...

This week on October 1st, we will celebrate the feast day of one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church, St. Thérèse of the ...

I leave on Saturday, September 21 for a two-week pilgrimage to Fatima and Spain. Know that I bring all of you and your intentions to the...

The more clear we are about our vocation, the stronger our resolve in keeping it. Jesus shares with his disciples “the mystery hidden for...

St. Paul is the great theologian of the New Testament. St. James, whose letter we have been reading from every Sunday, is much more frank...

It is often erroneously argued that science and faith are at odds with one another. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here ...

The Word of God on this 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time shows us the freedom that God has given us in his infinite mercy. This freedom ...

Jesus’ teaching in the gospels is challenging: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you; it is easier for a camel to go ...

“Taste and see the goodness of the Lord,” we respond in the psalm for this Sunday. We use our senses of taste and sight daily, often ...

This past week I felt sucker punched by the mockery of the Last Supper performed at the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. To have...

This past week about 50,000 Catholics from around the country gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Eucharistic Revival....

This Sunday, the Church presents us with Psalm 23 for our Responsorial Psalm. The response is, “The Lord is my Shepherd, there is nothing...

Many of us know what it feels like to move from one place to another—a new city, state, or even country. It can be a scary, risky, or ...

St. Paul recounts in this Sunday’s second reading that he begged the Lord to remove something that caused him great suffering and most ...

At one of the last daily Masses of the school year with our St. Martin’s School students, I shared with them one of my favorite verses in...

I’m excited to announce that newly-ordained Fr. Joe Heisey has been assigned to St. Martin’s. He’ll be joining us in the first week of ...

This Saturday, June 15, sixteen men will be ordained priests for the Archdiocese of Washington (or already have been ordained, depending ...

This past Friday and Saturday, we celebrated the Feast Days of the Sacred and Immaculate hearts of Jesus and Mary. These two hearts are ...

A few days ago the Vatican confirmed that Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized a saint, which comes as a great joy in light of this ...

As we celebrate Trinity Sunday, we recall that we are created in the image and likeness of Holy Trinity: “So God created man in his own ...