ON JULY 28, 2013, in front of an estimated three million young people and several Latin American leaders gathered on Brazil’s giant Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis announced...
ONE OF THE universal images of Christmas is light. During December people all around the world place lights over their holiday tree, on their homes, and in their windows. The first link between light...
LIFE IS filled with opposites. Light and dark. Soft and hard. Quiet and loud. When these are mixed together in the same creature, we often do a double take. St. Francis of Assisi knew this, which is...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: My mother has been in a nursing home for over two years now. I remember that the first months were hard for her settling in, but after a while she got used to the place, and for...
WHEN, say, in 30 or 40 years’ time, books (if they will still exist) begin to appear about the early decades of the 21 century, my guess is that one of the defining images of 2015 will be that...
WHEN I was a high school student, anti-littering campaigns were popular so our 4-H club developed and distributed litter bags for vehicles. Still today, I pick up roadside trash to discard, recyle,...
