While it occurs near the close of the calendar year, Advent marks the commencement of the liturgical one, beginning the Christian calendar afresh with its weeks of hushed expectation. In Reformation ...

(RNS) — Rachael Reynolds is a busy wife and mom of three who, like many parents, suddenly has been tasked with home-schooling her children and managing the anxiety of a pandemic. Reynolds, 34, also is ...

Five years ago a casual decision unexpectedly changed my life. I had resolved to use days off to hike the Bruce Trail, a 500-mile route following the Niagara Escarpment in southern Ontario. I did so ...

These 52 meditations explore the common places of human experience and the overlooked corners of our shared life through the lens of Christian faith. The result is a vividly rendered body of punchily ...

This spare and unsparing book of meditations by Hauerwas, a professor of theological ethics at Duke, departs from the style of some of his other work. The theologian's characteristic wit is absent ...

Earlier today, Pope Benedict attended the first in a series of four Advent reflections given by well-known author and preacher to the papal household--Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa O.F.M Cap. Held in the ...

Bishop Demetrio Fernandez Gonzalez of Tarazona, Spain, said this week that by praying the Rosary one hears the voice of God, who speaks through Mary about the mysteries of the life of Christ. In a ...

It is important to me to have an outdoor area to meditate, reflect and pray. I’m not too picky on the location — it just needs to be an area without walls, a place where I can open my mind and be ...