"If we don’t believe in God or dismiss him as irrelevant, we lose any conceivable chance of understanding our own identity." ...

Father Burke Masters’ dream was to be a major league baseball player, and in his priesthood he uses the sport “to speak about ...

Pope Leo addressed the major superiors of the Jesuits in the Synod Hall on Friday, Oct. 24, discussing the major frontiers of synodality, reconciliation and technology.

Religion’s influence in American public life is growing, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. In February ...

A teenage girl is looking at me with tears forming in her eyes. She is struggling to find the words to ask me a question. “I ...

By Mark Wilmoth In his book, Follow Me, David Platt points out that while churchgoers are often invited to “make Jesus the Lord and Savior of their life,” that isn’t Scriptural language. No one can ...

By Linda Bordoni Speaking in the Vatican to participants of the Meeting of the Major Superiors of the Society of Jesus (MMS), ...

Russell Brand is encouraging Christians to boldly proclaim their faith in a culture that is “steeped” in evil.

Van Ruijven died in 1674, Vermeer the following year, Maria in 1681, and Magdalena passed away in 1682. Of course, there are ...

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Q: I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors who both recently passed. I was brought up in a very conservative home where we went to synagogue every Saturday. We kept kosher and observed all the ...