“I am with you always” (Mt 28:20). Quoting Jesus at the Ascension from the Gospel of Matthew, Pope Francis shared these words when he...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) For my last day of elementary school, my entire class went to Chuck E. Cheese for a pizza party. I remember saving...

Who is God? And how does his identity impact my life? These are big questions that most of us don’t think about often, if at all. But the...

Part of the tradition of the Catholic Church is meditation on “Fear of the Lord” as a gift of the Holy Spirit, based Isaiah 11:1-3 and...

family, childhood and fatherhood concept - happy father and little son playing and having fun outdoors over autumn park background...

By Elizabeth Klein Assistant Professor of Theology at the Augustine Institute If you are a lifelong Catholic or if you have taken...

In the Old Testament, God’s people of Israel knew of God as father, but only in a general sense. For instance, since God is creator of...

Even when Thomas Aquinas was young, he was known often to ask, “who is God?” As he grew into one of the Church’s greatest theologians, he...

By Chris Lanciotti Today, many of us often hear the phrase that one “finds God in nature.” While something in that near cliché phrase...

(Photo: Adobe Stock) On the morning of August 10, 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa set sail from its harbor in the port of Stockholm. Built...

By Francis X. Maier Writing on the quincentennial of the Reformation and its parallels with emerging problems in the 21st-century German...

Detail of high altar by Sieger Koder in St. Joseph's Church in Bad Urach, Germany There are two people who could best provide a...

By Dr. Alan Fimister Assistant Professor at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary At the Last Supper, Our Lord told his disciples, “Amen,...

“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” There is power in words, and especially so in the words of Christ. While...

The Christ on a background of the sky ,3d render (Photo: Adobe Stock) The crucified Christ is both the most popular and powerful image in...

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1563. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) While not all may know about the story...

COL; (c) City of London Corporation; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation (Painting: Briton Rivière, The Temptation in the...

Father Leo Heinrichs woke up the morning of Feb. 23, 1908, and prepared for the 6 a.m. Mass at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in Denver....

Once, an editor of The Times newspaper asked G.K. Chesterton, “What is wrong with the world?” Chesterton, the great master of common...

By Debbie Herbeck Author, Speaker and Founder of the Be Love Revolution One of my favorite things to do with my small grandchildren is to...