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A Northern Nativity

By Cole Hartin William Kurelek (1927-77) was a Canadian artist and author who spent much of the second half of his anguished life grappling with...

What Child (Youth) Is This, Indeed?

Jesus’s first sermon in the Temple (Luke 2:41-52) By Jean McCurdy Meade The shepherds have returned to the fields and their flocks. When the child is...

Inns and Stables

I wrote an article recently about the “Poverty of Jesus,” responding to a few blog posts written by Ian Paul, which have come out regularly...

My Marian Testimony

By Leander Harding I grew up in the pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church. I served as an altar boy at the early morning weekday Masses which...

Joseph and the Politics of Uncertainty

In a safe country, with the rule of law, a citizen can ignore politics. In a country without predictability, a citizen has to watch and worry.

An Unsentimental Family

The Holy Family's faith is neither sentimental nor easy nor even stable.

The home life of our own dear queen

If there is any truth to modern theories on the origins of empathy, then we cannot forget them when we think of how Christ comes into the world.

The marriage of Mary and Joseph

On the importance of remembering Joseph’s obedience

Stamp Depicts Flight into Egypt

By Peggy Eastman Dean Gary R. Hall: “The holy family are refugees.”

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