A short, simple statement — “Marley was dead”— ranks high in any list of most famous first line in all literature. Marley, we soon learn, is the deceased former partner Ebenezer Scrooge, the memorable ...

It happens all year — the requests for donations for all manner of charitable causes. Pleas come in the mail from children’s hospitals, medical researchers, religious communities and educational ...

When I was still in the stage of life where the Lord would ask me if I were open to a baby, it was very, very easy to meditate upon the Annunciation. It was so simple to imagine myself in a small home ...