The word visitation has a rich biblical heritage. Familiar to most Christians as the time when Mary and Elizabeth meet, greet, and talk to one another before...
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A casual encounter in Greenland has an American pro-life activist gritting her teeth. I was in the Arctic Circle, in Greenland...
What was once such a lovely place is becoming the country’s financial flophouse. While most of us have watched, mouths agape, as the eye-rubbing economic clown...
“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is...
Over three decades of Mass-going, I’ve explored pretty much every avenue of distraction to make the time pass: pestering my brothers, making faces at buddies...
The current debates about God’s existence hardly lift us up to transcendence. Karen Armstrong shares a vision of faith that is less about proofs than practice...
The politics of abortion in Europe is both more complex and more nuanced than on this side of the Atlantic. Some things never go quite according to plan. Two...
Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: The Art of Janet McKenzie Edited by Susan Perry (Orbis Books, 2009) Early disciples never said how Jesus looked, so...
While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt By Heidi Schlumpf (ACTA, 2009) Wherever you are in your process of waiting to...
Just weeks after the visitation of American women religious congregations was announced, the Leadership Conference of Women’s Religious (LCWR) learned...
