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Like all great holidays Thanksgiving requires two things to be successful: careful preparation and spiritual focus.

The careful preparation is largely accomplished through family dialogue about the menu that usually concludes with virtually the same menu as last year, but careful preparation is still necessary because every ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: My entire family is overweight, and recent news from the FDA has convinced us to turn this around; however, I’m noticing now that instead of having an obsession with eating, we are obsessing about our appearance. My teenage girls want desperately to be accepted by their peers for the wrong reasons...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and first lady MK Pritzker met with Pope Leo XIV in Rome on Wednesday, where they discussed the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the two formally invited the pope to visit Chicago, the governor’s office said.

“It was an honor for MK and me to meet with @Pontifex — a son of Illinois — to ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: My friend might as well have slapped me across the face when she blurted out to our friends that I was a grandstander because I shared that she had been given a civic award. She never told me it was a secret, but she thought I had stolen her thunder. I was speechless. In an effort to make peace, I ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: This may be a wrong reason to go to church, but when I moved away from home to start college, I looked for a church where I might meet a nice, young Christian lady. I’ve spent time with someone but am disappointed she isn’t in tune with what true love really is; I fall short in explaining that ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I want to live for Christ and turn my back on the hold my friends have on me, but we’ve grown up together, and they will reject me if I change my lifestyle. They would treat me as an outcast because all they know of Jesus is to blaspheme His name. Maybe in time I can have an influence on them. ...Read more

NEW YORK — After enduring fire, flood, recession, a pandemic and changing times, a Brooklyn church still stands to celebrate its 170th anniversary on Sunday.

Much as visitors to Red Hook experience today, the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s clock tower was among the first sights immigrants spotted arriving in New York Harbor, said ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: My marriage is troubled for the want of one thing: money. This is driving both of us to work more, buy more and worry about how to pay the credit card bill each month. Most of the stuff we buy ends up in the closets, unused, untouched, forgotten. Because we work all the time, our paths rarely cross....Read more

White House border adviser Tom Homan lambasted the Catholic Church on Friday over its stance against the Trump administration's mass deportations.

"The Catholic Church is wrong, I'm sorry," Homan told reporters outside the White House. "I'm saying it not only as the border czar, I'm saying it as a Catholic."

Homan described himself as a "...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: When I was a teenager, I fought against succumbing to peer pressure and was surprised to learn that it doesn’t get much better as an adult. What really troubles me is trying to help my kids recognize peer pressure, which has been taken to a whole new level because of social media. Now it’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a unified statement to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The move marked a voice of support for immigrants — long a vital part of the U.S. Catholic Church — amid a year of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops issued a unified statement Wednesday to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The special statement was issued during the bishops' annual gathering in Baltimore. It was the first time since 2013 ...Read more

Q: I am a Catholic woman who is engaged to be married this summer. My fiancé, who is divorced, does consider himself Catholic but is not practicing and never attends services with me. Several months ago, I approached one of the priests in my parish about our wedding and asked to have our services at a catering hall and to have it performed by a...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I am taking a seminary class about the history of the Bible. The professor said that students were to treat the Bible like all other history books. Seems to me it is much more than just a history book. – B.H.

A: Simply put, the Bible is the source of all knowledge. It says, “People do not live ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I wish I could have a steady personality, but I’m all over the place. Does God fault us if we have a personality that swings from high to low? – P.T.

A: God wove various personality traits into His created beings. Emotions are not necessarily wrong or sinful. Often, the differences complement ...Read more