Sam Sawyer, S.J., editor-in-chief of America Media, returns to “Preach” to discuss his Advent homily series, designed to be more cohesive than the usual week-to-week, stand-alone Sunday homilies that ...

The Church that follows Jesus must be as willing to subordinate everything else to the proclamation of God's love. If that means downplaying or even abandoning certain ways of doing things, so be it.

The dream has more combinations than I can count, but the issue is always the same: Something terribly important is nigh, for better or worse, and I am not ready. Try as I might, there is just too ...