Understanding Christ's Love through Iconography and the Cross Artist(s) Unknown. Maestro della Croce 434 . “Crucifix with Stories of the...

(Photo: Pixabay) Why does the Church celebrate Jubilee years? The concept comes from the Old Testament, marking the completion of seven...

(Photo: Unsplash) I power my way past those walking casually. Need to beat them to the TSA Pre-Check lines. “Boarding pass?” I flash my...

(Photo: Unsplash) “Woke,” shorthand for what was once known as “political correctness,” helped fuel a grievance-based progressive...

(Photo: Pixabay, edited) My brother, a medical doctor, says that I got my MD from Google University. He is not wrong. I’m a theologian,...

(Photo: Pexels) Every decision we’ve ever made, are making now, or will make in the future is driven by our desire to be happy....

(Photo: Lightstock) I awoke with a start, my heart pounding, glad I had only dreamt that our four-year-old son fell off a 30-foot balcony...

(Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good...

(Photo provided) By Drew Gai   Becoming a father didn’t spontaneously make me a better Christian, but it has made it harder to be such a...

(Photo: Unsplash) Dr. Michelle Connor-Harris and Mark Sanders St. Raphael Counseling   If you’re a Catholic in your 20s, 30s or even 40s...

Jesus in the Storm on the Galilee Sea by Louis Janmot. (Photo: Public Domain/ArtVee) God has appointed us to bear fruit.  In the...

(Photo: MTF-GR, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) The National Catholic Reporter  recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s...

(Photo: Unsplash) By Sarah Mendus To be Catholic is to experience the greatest love story ever written. God is endlessly pursuing us,...

(Photo provided) It was a quiet Sunday evening, and I was making a cup of my favorite before-bed tea. My fellow missionaries had just...

President Ronald Reagan meets with Pope John Paul II during a visit to the Papal Library Vatican Pontifical Palace in 1982. (Photo:...

Thoughts on living liturgically at home and in the family (Photo: Unsplash) By Karin Middleton Associate Director of Family Ministry for...

(Photo: Pexels, edited) By Stacy Baum   I’ve had two MRIs in the past six weeks. The first — my first ever — was on my hip. And let me...

The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio, c. 1602. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) With his hands still clasped in the posture of...

Portrait of St. Benedict of Nursia by Herman Nieg, c. 1926. (Photo: Georges Jansoone/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) Lent shouldn’t be...

(Photo: Lightstock) “Send.” Another text. Out into the ether. Never to be seen again. For laughs, I looked back at my “conversation” with...