1. "My Pal Big Al": The Unique Ministry of Fr. Joe Kempf
(Content/Profile)

The big furry blue creature with a gray face and two prominent tusk-like teeth seems to be an unlikely sidekick to a parish priest who was awarded the prestigious Great Preacher Award by Aquinas Institute ...

2. Church Teaching and the Economic Crisis
(Content/Church Teaching)

Many of you will remember with sadness the news story earlier this year about a family in Wilmington, California, near Los Angeles, where five children and their mother were shot by their father, who then ...

3. Time, Talent, and Treasure: Parish survival depends on you
(Columns/Plain Talk)

Back in the day, if your New Orleans cabdriver dropped you at the corner of Constance and Josephine for Mass, you had three Catholic churches to choose from. Yes, the Redemptorists ran three separate ...

4. The Need to Read: Christian authors who inspire and entertain
(Columns/The Word in Our World)

There are also many other things that Jesus did;  if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. —John 21:25 The last verse of ...

5. There But for the Grace of God Go I
(Columns/Morality Matters)

In Catholic school I learned to repeat the above phrase often. It expresses gratitude for having been spared the sufferings we see others endure. It arouses compassion, moving us to help others shoulder ...