What is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands […]

The traditional Lenten practices of intensified prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are spiritual disciplines to be followed along the six-week pilgrimage from Ash Wednesday to the Easter Triduum. As I suggested in Roman Pilgrimage: The Station […]

Too Much Focus on Rome? – “Previous popes aided us in that desire for cultural resistance. This Pope does not. Therefore, perhaps it is time to forge ahead on our own to pursue a life […]

The Hallow app has quickly become one of the most successful prayer apps in the country—and not just for Catholics. It was the first faith-based app to crack the overall top 10; it boasts over […]

“The world is too small for what I intend to do.” – Francesca Cabrini Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when he […]

During the Super Bowl yesterday, millions of Americans were able to pause from the craziness of the game and pray. In an ad for Hallow—the Catholic prayer app founded by University of Notre Dame alumni […]

Lent is almost here. The Church asks us to make this season one of particular effort to learn holiness’s two aspects: living fully the new life in Christ that began in our baptism and putting […]