Fr. Eric Schimmel, C.S.C., checks in with his latest post on his ministry with the poor and the homeless at André House in Phoenix. This month he shares with us a potpourri of stories from André House, including one about an 86-pound pumpkin and another about being "given the...

Fr. Jim Connelly, the Superior of Holy Cross House, shares his last entry in his moving monthly series on some of the heroic, faith-filled men in Holy Cross who have blazed the path of holiness for the rest of us. Today, we learn about Fr. Robert Brennan, C.S.C., one of the community's gifted...

Mr. Brian Ching, C.S.C, our seminarian out at St. John Vianney Parish in Goodyear, AZ, has sent his latest post on life in the parish. Picking up from the profile on Wednesday on Fr. Joe, who actually founded and built the school at St. John Vianney, Brian shares a reflection on the importance...

Even on paper, the goal of increasing the enrollment of Latino children in Catholic schools from 250,000 to 1,000,000 seems like a pretty big undertaking, and yet that is precisely the mission of Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., the Director of the Catholic School Advantage Campaign at the University of...

Today, Fr. Kevin Grove, C.S.C., the associate pastor of Christ the King Parish in South Bend, Ind., shares with us about a beautiful prayer for vocations at their parish using a traveling monstrance blessed by the late Pope John Paul II.

Today marks the beginning of the beautiful season of Advent and also a new liturgical year. To help us enter this season well, we are sharing a reflection on today's Scripture readings, taken from the book The Gift of Hope: Advent and Christmas Reflections in the Holy Cross Tradition. It was...

Thanksgiving, perhaps more than any time of the year, is when our minds (and stomachs) turn to thoughts of meals. In our latest post giving us a glimpse into life in Old College, our undergraduate seminary, John Whittaker, shares about their tradition of Sunday meals, including a special one...

In a Thanksgiving Day treat, we are posting from The Cross, Our Only Hope the reflection written by Fr. Pat Neary, C.S.C., for this beautiful day. Enjoy, and have a blessed Thanksgiving!

One of my best friends and mentors in Holy Cross once told me that what attracted him most to our congregation was the variety of our ministries. "I knew I'd be less likely to get bored or slip into an unhealthy rut," he said with his usual matter-of-fact wisdom. Now I'm not a person for whom...

This past weekend, the Office of Vocations hosted an amazing 23 vocations prospects. Nineteen of them attended the annual College Discernment Retreat held at the Holy Cross Center in La Porte, Ind. Running point on the retreat for the Office of Vocations was Fr. Drew Gawrych, C.S.C., the...