From the Archives, originally published in 2014: On February 2, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, forty days after Christmas. In the 1962 calendar the feast is called the “Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary” and commonly referred to as Candlemas....

Revised and updated from the original posted November 1, 2013: November 1 begins the unofficial “All Saints Octave”: the eight days of November 1 to November 8. Each day of the “octave” one can earn a plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory. A visit to the cemetery...

During the week Pope Francis died, I was quite moved when reading the sign outside a local United Methodist Church: “Praying for Our Catholic Siblings.” How beautiful that they recognized the enormity of our Catholic current events—the sudden loss of Pope Francis, and now we are...