We need to pray for the person whose real identity and full story we do not know. Because that is everyone.

A Homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein

“The definition of desolation is notoriously slippery,” Father James Martin writes. “It is not simply a period of dryness in prayer, which is common to everyone.”

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very significantly, it is the expression of my prayer at this later time of my life.

This week on “The Spiritual Life,” Father James Martin speaks with Stephen Colbert about his experience of being a “fallen away” Catholic and returning to the faith.

Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein