I often teach men and women who return to college later in life to complete a degree. It is not unusual that some of them are older than I am, and I often...
Religion
Essays explaining our faith, including stories about church teaching, Vatican documents, canon law, liturgical theology, and other Catholic topics.
People today tend to think that history is pretty much about facts. Though history is always interpreted, the aim of history is to uncover facts to paint a...
Think of a loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or a child with spinal cord injuries. Imagine a treatment that promises their recovery at the...
Christianity has always emphasized faith as a person’s life-defining response to Jesus Christ. Early Christians put their deepest convictions about God...
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...
The new Catholic translations of the Mass pose a stumbling block to ecumenical relations, says a Lutheran liturgy scholar. One of the great joys that I have...
Get ready for changes to your Sunday Mass. When Father Jeff Keyes arrived at St. Edward's Parish in the summer of 2004, he found a thriving, multiethnic...
We are one church and we need just one Mass, this Catholic argues-even if that one Mass is celebrated in any number of languages. At one end of the archdiocese...
Yes, the gospels present four different portraits of Jesus. That's the whole point. Like many Catholics of their generation, Daniel Harrington's family...
In honor of Earth Day, let’s hear from one of the great saints of our church about the wonders of creation. Be sure to share this prayer with your...
