Bishop Martin: Trust in Jesus’ Sacred Heart, and let His love transform your life

In my bedroom as a child, there hung an 8.5-by-11-inch framed picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am not sure how it got there (I think it also hung in my father’s bedroom when he was a child), or where it is today, but it is a significant part of my early spiritual journey.

What the pope’s encyclical on AI is asking of you

Near the end of his new encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo XIV senses that his reader may be feeling overwhelmed. “At this point,” the Holy Father writes, “a subtle temptation may emerge, namely the thought that the problems are too big and we are too small, and that our choices, therefore, cannot make a difference.”

Pope Leo XIV: A real American hero

This spring marked the one-year anniversary of the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope.

It has been exciting following our very own American-born pope through his first year – although Leo XIV has not allowed himself to be pigeonholed as an “American pope.” He is a missionary who belongs first to the Lord and, for His sake, to the entire world.

Laura Kelly Fanucci: Gospels teach us how to live as family in every struggle

Family life is hard. In case no one has reminded you of that lately, let me be the one. Whether you’re in the stage of diapers and bottles, wiping faces and losing sleep, or worrying about the children who have grown – the now-adults making their stumbling way through a suffering world – families will always be holy, hard, humbling schools of love.

Silvio Cuéllar: Go and make disciples of all nations

It was a Sunday in the month of May, and Sergio Jiménez stood in front of a packed church at Blessed Sacrament Church, ready to make a brief invitation at the end of Mass.

Kenneth Craycraft: Authentic freedom is more than doing whatever we want

Writing to the Church at the ancient city of Galatia (now in modern-day Turkey), St. Paul the Apostle declared, “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1).

Dr. Antonette Aguilera: Keep each child’s moral compass pointed to true north

One of our Cub Scout students gleefully showed me his brand-new compass. A compass is a fantastic contraption – almost magical. It points north because of something we cannot see:

Earth’s magnetic field. It is a consistent, unfailing mechanism, a quiet gift of creation that helps us navigate this wondrous planet.

Jaymie Stuart Wolfe: Christ makes death a door, not a wall

Christ is risen! Alleluia! We’ll be saying (and singing) that refrain and others like it until Pentecost, which this year isn’t until the end of May.

And well we should! The resurrection of Jesus is the irreplaceable centerpiece of our faith. So much so that St. Paul devoted a substantial portion of his First

Letter to the Corinthians addressing those who thought otherwise.