“Just offer it up!” It’s a typical Catholic response to children’s complaints. Bored during Mass? Offer it up to Jesus. Teacher yelled at you? Offer it up...
Church history
Sometimes, we feel caught in a maelstrom. Modern life moves at a breathless pace and we despair at keeping up. Pope Francis dubbed this dizzying trajectory...
The Acts of the Apostles gives us an idyllic vision of the earliest Christian communities: All who believed were together and had all things in common; they...
In the fall of 1981, something miraculous happened in the sleepy village life of Kibeho in the south of Rwanda. Alphonsine Mumureke, a young woman attending...
When discussing the Bible, Christians often contrast the God in the Hebrew scriptures with the God they believe is found in the Christian scriptures. According...
According to French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, when we look into the face of another person, we see the word of God. The face, Levinas writes, is a conduit...
In the foothills of British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains, about two miles north of the border with the United States, there is a small commune known as Hardy...
These days, when Catholics talk about someone being a saint, this usually has nothing to do with signs or wonders, but with a life of heroic virtue. Further...
Listen on: Apple | Spotify When Catholics argue about the more controversial teachings of the church, it’s not unusual for someone to try to shut the...
A thousand or so years ago, there lived an Irish archbishop named Malachy. And this archbishop supposedly had a series of visions about popes—past, present and...
