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In preparing couples for marriage, I enjoy asking them what seems to be a simple question: “So, what is love?” Now for many of us, the word love is among our favorites. On…

DETROIT — Sacred Heart Major Seminary is looking to engage, energize and inspire with a series of free, online courses for lay Catholics starting March 11. The new “massive open…

CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT- 03/15/2019 They called out as it were with one voice: ‘We beg you, holy boy, to come and walk again among us.’ This touched my heart deeply,…

Years ago, a man made a retreat to a remote monastery. Upon arriving there, the abbot informed him that he and the other monks hadn’t watched television in twenty-five years…

ROME (CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE) Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one’s own faults and defects, Pope…

A friend once told me of a trying time in her life. After being diagnosed with skin cancer, her physicians recommended that she receive treatment at a renowned skin cancer…

We all have a list of things that drive us crazy. One that drives lots of people up the wall is caused by those, kids and some adults too, who do…

On a summer day in the year 2000, Jack Sullivan was told by his surgeon that based on scans of his spine, surgery would be necessary to repair it. Later…

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A lot has changed during Deacon Lawrence Girard’s 100 years on this earth. With a lifetime that has spanned two countries, two career paths and a vocation…

Bad boy Ruth—that was me. Don’t get the idea that I’m proud of my harum-scarum youth. I’m not. I simply had a rotten start in life, and it took me…