The Fire Within

Most of the special experiences I had during my VIDES experience were small and personal. When I say personal, I mean a moment shared by m...

Reading Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy left me an emotional wreck, I admit. But despite all the violence, or perhaps partly because...

Like every year, the many pre-Christmas festivities of Advent have nearly worn me out. I’ve decided implement a cookie-fast for the last wee...

Over the past few years, the feast of Christ the King (November 20) has become one of my favorites. It’s so beautiful and full of light and ...

November 20 th is the feast of St. Korbinian, a Frankish missionary to southern Germany (specifically Bavaria) in the early 8th century. He...

This year, 2011, marked the 10 th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it also marked the 25 th anniversary of the interr...

For the last few days (September 22-25), I and various sisters here in Munich have been glued to the TV as Pope Benedict made his third visi...