It took tough love for Dmitri Branton to realize he could break a family cycle. The 16-year-old credits a nonprofit organization that houses and educates underprivileged children for giving him an ...

The following was originally published on March 16, 2025. Watch for Jay Hildebrandt to return next Sunday. Life is full of ...

San Diego Reader: What is your favorite subject on which to preach? Pastor Eric Clarke: How do we help people live and love more like Jesus? We want to help people become Christ followers. If Jesus is ...

Editor’s Note: Read Part 1 here. Given the psychological, moral and even technological benefits that Catholic moral teaching can help to engender — which are, in turn, the fruit of literally centuries ...

I remember when I realized I did not want to be a schoolteacher. It was the summer between my junior and senior years in high school. I had signed up to be a teacher’s aide in our small-town public ...

Pope Francis arrives for an audience with participants in a meeting organized by the Italian bishops’ National Catechetical Office, at the Vatican Jan. 30, 2021. (Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media.) ...

The afternoon light lit up the stained glass in the dim church. I knelt in the pew gazing at our Blessed Lord in the monstrance with my heart thumping in prayer as my daughter was in the confessional ...