Have you ever thought you knew someone only to find that there was much more to this person than you thought?

This Advent letter is an invitation to pray, meditate, and interiorize the “Evangelical Counsels” as a means to pursue our journey with Saint Vincent de Paul, a “Mystic of Charity.”

Teachers can’t expect to have a student as exceptional as St. Thomas Aquinas, but both Albertus Magnus and Mother Seton understood that every teacher can create “masterpieces” by forming students in Christ’s image.

I wondered what “wandering art gallery eyes” might mean; I often find intriguing insights in the French Catholic periodical La Croix.

Jesus does not turn down the outcasts that come to him, but welcomes them.  He promises to give them God’s kingdom. We celebrate the solemn feast of Jesus Christ, King of the universe.  And the Church sends us back to the place called “The Skull.”  There, they crucify...