At first reading it may appear that St. Matthew has made a mistake. After narrating Christ’s tale of the ten young women charged to attend to a newly married couple, the evangelist’s concluding …
When I was in the third grade, my godmother, my great Aunt Hilda, came to live with us. She had suffered a debilitating stroke and needed a lot of care and attention. My mother was a nurse, so she …
“Todos, todos, todos” (meaning “everyone, everyone, everyone” in Spanish and Portuguese) is a hallmark phrase voiced by Pope Francis during World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023. Clearly, the …
The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States. The death toll from that massacre …
The Most Reverend William J. Hickey was a central Massachusetts priest who became auxiliary and then bishop of Providence just after World War I. His Excellency chose as his episcopal motto the …
