"Magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt his name together," Jim Henry quoted Psalm 34:3 to a packed St. Francis Xavier (College) Church last week, after receiving an immediate and enthusiastic standing ovation from the audience at the end of the Catholic High School Choristers concert he directed.

Henry emphasized the word "together," noting that the students, representing 11 high schools in the archdiocese, truly had come together throughout the week to be formed as one in praising...

As I continue this series on the family, I want to reflect about children in the family. I do so with a special awareness that July 20-26 was designated Natural Family Planning Week by the U.S. bishops.

As our faith in the Trinity took definitive shape, theologians explored ways that the family might provide us with an analogy for understanding the Trinity. But a special emphasis of St. John Paul II was to turn the matter around -- not to ask whether the family can help us to...

Building vocations in Bolivia is a goal for St. Louis priests serving in the Latin America Apostolate and the efforts persist, according to Father James Michler, who joined the apostolate in 1991 and serves as senior associate pastor of Maria Reina Parish in La Paz.

Father Michler and his fellow priests at Maria Reina spread "The Joy of the Gospel," as is pointed out in the theme of the annual collection for the Latin America Apostolate in parishes Aug. 2-3. The collection helps...

Like many photojournalists I know, I started my career early. In the fall of 1986, as a scrawny high-school freshman, I joined our yearbook staff. My mother had required me to do an extra-curricular activity and I wasn't good or even interested in many sports. The yearbook sounded like fun.

I was pretty much obsessed with news photography from my first "assignment" -- a football game. I recently discovered a photo from that game. A quarterback was pitching the ball as defensive...