A reflection on a 17th-century painting by Everdingen, exploring its artistic flaws, symbolic beauty, and the historical ...

What do the KGB and the former CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have in common? Eugene Litvak. The Soviet intelligence agency and the children’s hospital have each separately looked to the ...

Among the many eccentricities against women in the name cultural religious and traditional was Mulakkaram or Breast Tax a tax forced upon the Dalit women of Travancore in order to cover their breasts ...

In centuries past, sin-eaters consumed ritual meals to take on the spiritual weight of the dead. Today, that ancient practice ...

Some U.S. evangelical Christians are promoting radical right-wing theologies that seek to overthrow the secular state and ...

As priests, you can choose Jesus today because he has chosen you first. You can love, because Jesus has loved you first.

We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until ...

News of the incident of Aziz s wife trying to seduce Yusuf spread throughout the town and the womenfolk in particular began to gossip about it They felt that Zulaykha was clearly in the wrong Then Azi ...

Pope Leo XIV “is the man the church and the world need right now” and his greatest challenge, “the one he’ll carry most in ...

Archbishop Gomez also invoked the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, who was a missionary in Peru for many years with the ...

Following St. Augustine, it appears Leo does not see unity as everyone singing the same note but rather as a choir singing in ...

In his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on May 8, Leo said the cardinals chose him “to be the successor ...