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In All Things
Once upon a Christmas Eve many years ago When I was a wide-eyed young boy My head was full of anticipated Christmas joys That were to come in the morning when all would be merry and bright Where amidst the wrappings of all those presents upon the tree There would be Christmas cheer for e
The Ignatian Educator
The Christmas season has evoked a number of essays on faith and religion including essays from two nbsp regular columnists at the New York Times and one from Eric Metaxas in the Wall Street Journal nbsp T M Lurhmann professor at Stanford in quot Religion Without God quot 12 24 wrote Religio
The crying of Baby Jesus is not the only cry people should hear on Christmas, the pope said.
In All Things
During the holiday season, there is a spirit of giving in the air that transcends belief.
The Good Word
No one can love us like family, and no one can hurt like family.
Dispatches
Pope Francis highlighted the killing and maltreatment of children in so many countries as he issued a passionate plea for peace in his second Christmas message to the city of Rome and to the World ldquo Urbi et Orbi rdquo and reminded his global audience that ldquo Jesus is the salvation for
The Good Word
One soldier and then another imitated the one who came among us as an infant.
News
Sixty-four are baptized into the Christian family
News
Pope Francis deplored the "abuses and inhuman acts" of Islamic State militants, and called on all religious leaders to condemn them "unanimously and unambiguously." He also said he hoped to travel to the Middle East to comfort persecuted Christians there.The pope's words appe
The Word
How do relationships begin There is naturally not just one way one place or one word needed to start a relationship But is there a common process by which friendship is built from nothing to the point that neither party can imagine life without the other Some friendships begin in childhood thei
The Word
In a number of Servant Songs in Isaiah a mysterious individual appears who sometimes represents the nation of Israel though later Christians understood him to represent Jesus In Isaiah 42 this person is designated ldquo my servant rdquo ebed in Hebrew while in the Septuagint ldquo my child
Books
'Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America,' by Paula M. Kane
Letters
Family UnityI second the Rev. Robert P. Imbelli in “Family in Focus” (12/8). Father Imbelli emphasizes the importance of prayer in this process of discernment, and I would add Scripture to that. I am reminded of the Gospel reading at my wedding, “That they may be one,” from J
Signs Of the Times
Ukrainian Catholic leaders have warned that their church is being driven underground again, a quarter-century after it was re-legalized with the end of Communist rule. “In Crimea and eastern Ukraine, we’ve already effectively returned to the catacombs,” said the Rev. Ihor Yatsiv, t
The Church Visible
Preparation for the October 2015 Synod on the Family may help the U.S. church face pressing problems.The church faces a challenge of disunity, some of it from polarization. Threats to unity have crept into the church from adversarial politics that permeate cultural warfare and political skirmishes r
Signs Of the Times
Watching a Vatican-brokered diplomatic breakthrough in De-cember that may lead to the normalization of relations between the United States and the island nation of Cuba, Eusebio Mujal-León was hardly a disinterested bystander. A professor at Georgetown University, Mujal-León is the director of a G
Signs Of the Times
Ending a year that saw a papal visit, a war in Gaza and the resumption of unrest in Jerusalem, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal’s Christmas message condemned all instances of violence. “We condemn the Gaza war and deplore its dramatic consequences, killing and destruction, but at the same time