Mental health has received greater emphasis this lockdown year — isolation, loss of jobs and businesses, the effect on churches and schools and the simple irrationality of the rules can be wearing. It ...

“You mean, no talking, like not at all?” my sister asked by phone during the two-hour drive to the Royal Way Spiritual Retreat Center in Lucerne Valley. “That’s intense.” It was June 2016, three years ...

For a few weeks as a novice I was a chaplain in a gray jail for kids. I think of it as gray because the boys wore gray sweats and the walls were cinderblock and the air was dead and the quiet ...

Many prophets have come to this world and have gone. They have all been like the windows. Through any window you can see the same sun, the same sky. The one sky that is behind the wall is behind the ...

If anyone were to ask about the state of Christian belief in a culture increasingly determined on disbelief, take a look at what has happened to Advent, a season whose original meaning has more and ...

Xavier Beauvois’ beautiful, spare, powerful film Of Gods and Men, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it Xavier Beauvois’ beautiful, spare, powerful film Of Gods and Men, which ...

No one under the sun knows exactly what the image of God is in human beings. Creativity? Self-awareness? I’ll tell you this. It ain’t something to be arrogant about. “Whatsoever is, is in God, and ...

VATICAN CITY -- Before the speech-giving began at the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI offered participants an unusual reflection on the threat of "false gods" that beset the ...