As we look toward Thanksgiving and Christmas, I realize that 2025 is quickly coming to an end, and so is the Jubilee Year of Hope. What will be our take-aways from this special time of grace?
All Saints Day causes me to reflect upon what a blessing it was to join the JMJ Youth Pilgrimage to Rome. While there our group was present for the Sept. 7 canonizations of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati This reminded me of my devotion to another saint who also died when she was young.
For many years, our religious community was best known in the United States as half of a college sports parody comparing the worst teams to the Little Sisters of the Poor.