Whenever I hear the reading about the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:1-16), I think about my middle son and the lesson I learned from him when he was 5 years old. We’d taken the kids to ...

In the September issue of America, Tim Busch, the founder of the Napa Institute, described one effort to help lessen polarization in the U.S. church. He hosts dinner gatherings of “prominent Catholics ...

This gesture, breaking bread together, has a rich meaning. It’s a symbol of familiarity, of welcome, of openness, as well as a gesture signifying peace and friendship. We think of it as having a meal ...

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I can’t overemphasize the importance of the first verse of today’s Gospel pericope: “The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of ...