We sell our faith short, and so we sell our Lent short. At least I do. I have spent most of my life thinking of the faith as ...

A West Virginia couple received the maximum sentences of decades in prison Wednesday for abusing their adoptive children, ...

Life's innumerable trials produce any number of reactions in the afflicted, including self-pity, stoicism, and humble ...

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” helps me understand my own complicated relationship with Catholicism and sexuality.

The cry of the rooster was one of the most familiar sounds in the life cycle of a first-century person, as common as the ...

Awell-known passage for living in the Kingdom of God is found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapters 5 through 7.

Now is not a time to deny that it is dark, says Sr. Christine Schenk. It is a time to lean on God's own Spirit to help us ...

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on ...

Going to Mass and receiving Communion are signs of putting one's trust in God and understanding he is the one who gives the ...

You can hate the death penalty and at the same time acknowledge its divine justice in the divine order of a God whose ...

COMMENTARY: Lent is the perfect time to rediscover the Act of Contrition and the divine mercy it calls us to embrace.

But what if there was a way back? That is, a way to regain the love, warmth, and tender affection. If it is difficult for you to even imagine being reunited with an estranged family member or friend, ...