“This is the beginning. This is the day. You are watching the unfolding of one of history’s great adventures.” Those dramatic words began the 1965 sci-fi series, “Lost in Space.” They are even more ...

The Feast of the Annunciation on March 25 is one of the most important on the Church calendar. First, it celebrates the actual Incarnation of Jesus Christ — the Word made flesh in the womb of the ...

In my life I all too often seek to completely understand large decisions before I make a real commitment to them. I want to know exactly what is going to happen, how it is going to happen and why it ...

Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation," dated to c. 1472–1476, depicts the scene narrated early in the Gospel according to Luke wherein the archangel Gabriel appears to Mary, seeking her Fiat for God's ...

Pope Francis has invited Catholics to annually renew an act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25. The solemnity of the Annunciation on Saturday marks one year since Pope Francis ...

When Graciela Daniele was 6 years old, a doctor diagnosed her as having a problem with her arches. But rather than wear special shoes or have surgery, he suggested a most unusual prescription: "Why ...

“A body you prepared for me” (Heb 10:5). I discovered when I sat down to write this reflection that, either providentially or absurdly, I had been assigned the identical first reading and Gospel when ...

Twenty-five years ago, I had a prayer experience that I return to annually at Advent. At the time, I was a novice Catholic ...

For more than 100 years, Annunciation Church and its stately redbrick school have been an anchor of its corner of south Minneapolis. Students in green and blue uniforms, many from the surrounding ...

In the darkest minutes and in the long days after a shooter killed two children and injured more than 20 people, prayer, ...