Fr. James Martin, S.J., writes "desire is a key way that God speaks to us, whether in Advent or the rest of the year."

Mary is not happy simply for herself; she is happy for what this means for Israel, for God’s people.

Finding balance in long-distance running

How can you say to a complete stranger, a trusted teacher, a college classmate: “We’re infertile”?

Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.

We grow worried and concerned and bothered and angry and sometimes scandalized because your divine institution, our home, is filled with human beings who are sinful. Just like me.