The breadth and depth of diaconate ministry in the United States and around the world cannot be underestimated.

A summer box office hit is garnering both kudos and concerns for its approach to the issue of child trafficking.

Typically observed every 25 years, a Holy Year or jubilee can draw millions of pilgrims to Rome — a 2,775-year-old city of 2.9 million people that already infamously copes with an average of 7 to 10 million tourists a year.

Day by day, we can look for ways to be a person for others as a way of life, in our family, our neighborhood, our world.

Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, the Knights’ supreme chaplain, introduced Mother Agnes as “a true disciple of the Lord working in a profoundly difficult apostolate.”