IF YOU HAD your life to live over, what would you do differently? This question is only a parlor game, of course: None of us gets a do-over from birth on out.

So let's talk frankly about the vocation crisis. We all know why we're having this problem, though public rhetoric imparts the blame to this group or that one.

Christ is the head of his body, the church. No matter who was responsible for writing Colossians 1:18, we Christians can agree on this statement. But who should mind the store until Jesus comes again in glory is a different subject entirely.

The gospel isn't words to put in a sacred book, saved for holy times and places. Scripture is a toolbox, or the glove compartment, or a backpack in which we keep the things we truly need on hand, every day.

Artists often make the best theologians. Since ancient times they've also been some of the most effective ones.

Jesus requires from his disciples terms that are unusually demanding: Give all that you have to the poor and come follow me! Yet Jesus both models and teaches a way that’s gentle and merciful.

Lord, I am not worthy.” We all say that at every Mass—but we don’t always believe it. Because sometimes it just feels as if we are pretty worthy.

Two children, a father, and an inheritance: How many stories begin this way, and how bitterly many of them end!

What we hold true—about God, the church, scripture, revelation, the sacraments, and eternity—are encapsulated in the Creed.

Abram was 75 and still living with his father when God first came calling with a new plan for his future. No wonder he was so willing to get up and go! For their part, most teenagers would agree that getting out is the first step to getting a life.