as various kinds came to represent the various aspects of the Christian life and the life of Our Lord and His Mother: Bay for the Passion of Christ, not just for mourning as before, the evergreen ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday added the Sept. 5 feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta to the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar as an ...

Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.’ The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.” Psalm 46:10-11 As the ...

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

The brutal tumult of the 20th century turned Eastern Europe, once a melting pot, into a bloc of relatively homogeneous nation ...

It’s Advent – my favorite season of the church year. If you’re not a church nerd like I am, Advent is a season of waiting. Four weeks of growing light, one light at a time each ...

Father Charles Vachetta, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate in Turin, Italy, wanted to give his parishioners something special for the Advent of 1721 ... Zeph 3:14-18) Our Lord and King... Behold ...

First of three parts TRUST, a five-letter word, is a critical behavior in the daily lives of men. It is an assured reliance ...

Every year, when the first new moon in the lunar calendar rises, millions of families across East and Southeast Asia gather ...

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

Last of six parts IN this column last month, we dealt lengthily with the correlation between the phrase "greener pastures" ...

ORIGINS OF ZIONISM: Rabbi Lisa Vinikoor discusses the history of Zionism in the Beam classroom of the Visual Arts Center. The ...