In our call to prayer, we are given the powerful and provocative image of Mary of Nazareth, God-Bearer, First Disciple, and Mother of the Church. No one followed the Lord’s life of prayer better than ...

“Mary remained with Elizabeth about three months and then returned to her home” (Lk 1:56). Most women in the Gospels are silent. They are so silent that the fact that we get any prayer at all from the ...

He has shown the strength of his arm, and has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good ...

Every year, millions of people visit the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The exposed surface where people tuck prayers between the stones is only a fraction of the original wall that ...

In Minneapolis, my painting of "The Windsock Visitation" hangs prominently in the monastery of the Sisters of the Visitation, where it has been since the congregation commissioned it in 1993. The ...