Our Lady of the Sign by Abigail Favale | Ignatius, 2026 | 224 pages | $17.95 “I don’t suppose there’s any way I can talk you out of it?” The gas station attendant’s question comes at Simone’s last stop on her journey back to the remote farmhouse she hasn’t seen …

Sacred Heart Church in Dayton is home of the Dayton Vietnamese Catholic community and is served by the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CRM, called the Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix until 2017), a religious order formed in Vietnam in the 1940s. About half of the order’s members …

My dad passed away almost 13 years ago. The raw impact has dulled with time, but the reality that someone so essential is gone remains a painfully unflinching reality. My oldest son vaguely remembers him, but to my four other children, Pop Pop is a character in beloved stories from …

Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on Pope St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body (TOB).” From the beginning, God gave us marriage not only for the good of spouses sharing this life together but also as a sign of the intimate union God Himself desires …

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” Mt 28:19 Jesus gave His disciples this commission just before ascending into heaven. Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC, nos. 849-852) teach that …

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them (Gn 1:26-27). What does it mean to be made in the image of the God …

On most Sundays at St. Maximillian Kolbe Parish, my family sits facing a stained glass window of Fr. Kolbe. The window contains a constellation of symbols representing the events of his life; from well-known facts (his Auschwitz uniform) to those lesser known (his time in Nagasaki). At the top of …

A Guide to Visio Divina Invite the Holy Spirit to enlighten your experience as you gaze at the painting. Notice what thoughts and emotions enter your heart and mind. Be still. Pray with the image as you are led. BACKGROUND From the seat opposite me in the confessional, the priest …

June is the month of the Sacred Heart, when we celebrate the passionate Heart of Jesus bleeding in a deep desire to be united with each of us in those moments of struggle, those moments where we experience a particular passion in our lives. It is in these moments that …