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...
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If any scholar could claim a ring-side seat to the liturgical reform of the 20th century, it would have to be Father Robert Taft, S.J. Taft recalls being...
In late 1995 Archbishop Desmond Tutu was looking forward to his retirement when South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela appointed him chairperson of the...
The key to a thriving parish is not so much what goes on inside, says this longtime pastor, but what its members are doing beyond its walls. In his book...
If you're bogged down by a busy modern lifestyle, the ancient Rule of St. Benedict still offers a path home. Esther de Waal pioneered the application of...
One may not expect to find a Christian monastery in the mountains of Syria, much less one led by an Italian Jesuit. But Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (The Monastery...
In one of her Boston College courses, Rabbi Ruth Langer traces anti-Judaism through Christian texts. “My students are shocked to hear the kind of...
Could ending our adoration of oil be the key to a peaceful future? Has the idea of American exceptionalism finally run its historical course in the big muddy...
Yes, the gospels present four different portraits of Jesus. That's the whole point. Like many Catholics of their generation, Daniel Harrington's family...
Sean Reynolds cheerfully agreed to torpedo tired old thinking at the National Symposium on Adolescent Catechesis last November. The symposium, dreamed up by...
