On Sept. 14, we celebrated the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. This great feast day helps us to remember all that the Cross reveals about God’s merciful love for us and how Jesus’ death on the Cross not only reconciles us to God but restores our deep and intimate communion with him.

El 14 de septiembre celebramos la fiesta de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz.  Esta gran fiesta nos ayuda a recordar todo lo que la Cruz revela sobre el amor misericordioso de Dios por nosotros y cómo la muerte de Jesús en la Cruz no sólo nos reconcilia con Dios, sino que restaura nuestra profunda e íntima comunión con Él.

The fall equinox and the first day of autumn arrives on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024, at 08:44 a.m. EDT in the Northern Hemisphere. The equinox occurs at the same moment worldwide. So, it’s official — fall is here!

Those who understand the signs of the times are increasingly jarred by the hollowing out of the American middle class. The variance between owner and worker in today’s industries is greater than even Gilded Age barons; the increasing costs of education, health care, housing, and food are hampering the building of fruitful and faithful families in our land. The voices that tempt our citizens toward despair and violence are being accepted as alternatives to this present crisis, for it seems that representative government can only appear to be hopelessly corrupt with self-interest on every side, in every party, leaving a faithful Catholic confused as to ways to live out an authentic Catholic faith.  The deluge of social media only impersonates our sense of connection and happiness.

NEW YORK. “The afterlife is so random,” observes a character in the horror-comedy sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (PG-13, Warner Bros.). If the disorganized structure of returning director Tim Burton’s follow-up to the Reagan-era film that first made his reputation as a conjurer of Gothic atmosphere is anything to go by, it must be arbitrary indeed.