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Ordained to Serve

Few are called to give homilies, but we’re all called to receive them

in the beginning

Leviticus anticipates Jesus’ Greatest Commandment

I’d come from afar to see this again

Francis Malone installed as bishop of Shreveport

Three pillars of Lent help structure the special season

Do your adult children see the difference the Eucharist makes in you?

Catholics ‘unfriend’ social media, choose ‘digital detox’ for Lent

Sisters, Servants of Mary embrace first lay associates

‘We have to go out and get to them’

Freelancer Hesse captures church life with lens

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